Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
2011/3/23 Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org:
I disagree, however, that the backlog of trunk reviews is not concerning. It means that we still haven't come up with a good process for reliable and quick (as in time between commit and review) code review. I have briefly told the list about my ideas for this in the past, maybe I should revive that thread some time. I also believe that, once we have a process where every commit is reviewed within a reasonable timespan (ideally at most a week), getting deployment closer to trunk and getting it to stay there will actually be fairly easy to do.
One of the ways to improve this is to assign mentors to new committers. Mentors don't have to be necessarily related to the particular area of committers work. The question is how many current developers would have time to accommodate "newbies", but maybe we can work towards this idea?
//Marcin (saper)