[Development] Long time before becoming approver?

[Leandro T. C. Melo]

On 11/3/2011 10:50 AM, ext eike.ziller at nokia.com wrote:
> One could also handle the "relevant people might be on vacation" issue by giving approvers a "probation period" where they are approvers in gerrit, but the status can be revoked without the hassle of a "vote of no confidence", to give people who where not available for some reason the chance to still raise concerns.
>
> 1) proposal + seconded
> 2) after n-weeks (1? 2?) -->  approver on probation
> 3) after n more weeks (1? 2?) -->  approver
>

Hi,

I'm not sure whether I like the idea... Initially because it would be 
hard to have a probation period that is actually meaningful for every 
module. But most importantly, is there a reason why revoking a 
maintainer on probation would be different than revoking a maintainer 
which is not on probation?

Cheers,
Leandro

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Leandro T. C. Melo
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks

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