On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Danese Cooper dcooper@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think you may be hallucinating. We are just now hiring our second code-reviewer, who is also thinking about ways to make the code review process more transparent.
Is this someone with a lot of MediaWiki experience? If not, how are they supposed to review code? I'd think it would be much more sound to ask a couple of existing employees to pitch in instead, spending part of their time reviewing and part of it coding. I can think of a couple of people who are qualified enough. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have someone who only reviews and doesn't code, unless they've already done so much coding that they're very familiar with the codebase and coding conventions anyway.
I also wonder how the review process could be more transparent, since it's already completely public and open for anyone to join in (and plenty of random non-developers do join in).