[Development] Speeding up the review process (was: PostgreSQL cross compile for Pi)

Jedrzej Nowacki jedrzej.nowacki at qt.io
Fri Oct 13 16:03:38 CEST 2017


If you do like that then you are doing it wrong. Review process is _not_ based 
on a name / company / sun activity. It is  based on the change content. Even 
best people do mistakes.

Cheers,
  Jędrek

On piątek, 13 października 2017 15:48:51 CEST Viktor Engelmann wrote:
> I am thinking about the scenario when I read a 300 line commit and I am
> unsure about some of the lines. Say it removes one include and adds
> another include.
> 
> If that commit comes from someone whom I talk to every day - someone
> whom I know to be very concerned about security and privacy - and
> someone I know is competent and has approver rights - I might ignore
> these 2 lines and assume that the compiler will fail on the CI in case
> the removed header was still needed.
> 
> When the commit comes from someone whom I have never heard of - I will
> look into whether there is a symbol that will now be resolved
> differently - and if there is, I assume that this "differently" opens a
> backdoor.
> 
> On 13.10.2017 14:52, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > On 2017-10-13 13:04, Viktor Engelmann wrote:
> >>      * I don't think we need to be as paranoid towards contributions
> >> from
> >> our own employees as we need to be towards external contributions.
> > 
> > I believe you got that the wrong way around :)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Marc





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