I just read
http://sarah.thesharps.us/2014/09/01/the-gentle-art-of-patch-review/ and it
made a lot of sense to me as a way to speed up the first response a new
patch gets.
"Instead of putting off reviewing first-time contributions and thoroughly
reviewing everything in the contribution at once, I propose a three-phase
review process for maintainers:
1. Is the idea behind the contribution sound?
2. Is the contribution architected correctly?
3. Is the contribution polished?"
The post author, a Linux kernel developer, goes into more detail in the
post; it's worth reading even if you decide this approach isn't your style.
(Reminder:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review/Getting_reviews
and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review are worth
re-skimming.)
Sumana Harihareswara
Senior Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation