Re: Commitfest process

Andrew Chernow wrote:
>
>> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> The main point of my proposal is: let's make the *authors* who want
>> their stuff to be reviewed as part of a commitfest do the extra work.
>> There would be no extra work required for patch reviewers.
>>
>
> I think this makes the most sense. It distributes the work to authors
> who know the most about the patch/feature and have probably followed
> all discussions related to it. Updating a wiki or something similar
> is a brainless activity.

We are making much too big a deal of not very much here. AIUI a
commitfest just involves a change in priority of tasks, mainly by
committers, but also to some extent by other developers capable of doing
reviews.

As for making authors do extra work: good luck with that.

In any case - ideally there shouldn't be any extra work.

If someone wants to turn the patch list into something more
reader-friendly, then that's a separate issue, really, quite apart from
the commitfest. I rather liked the wiki page that Stefan Kaltenbrunner
maintained for 8.4 features - it provided quite a good overview of where
we were.

cheers

andrew