Maybe we can get a dedicated open source code review bot and tweak it’s code 
for us. That should instill more confidence :)



> On Sep 2, 2026, at 8:02 PM, David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It's never been an easier time as a committer to be the shepherd/reviewer
> to a non-committer PR.  We have automated code reviews via GitHub co-pilot
> (need to add as a reviewer to engage).  No longer do we have to edit a
> massive CHANGES.txt to pick a version that might be wrong or even know the
> version.  No longer do we have the chore of back-porting, for the vast
> majority of PRs.  Just pick a final destination Milestone on the PR and
> please DM me a "thank you" if you appreciate this.  An LLM armed with a
> script is usually going to do this more thoroughly than you would have
> (i.e. it actually considers multiple CI jobs and usually runs tests before
> push).  And recently, I'll manually "resolve" the JIRA issue as well as the
> final step (if it looks like a one-shot PR issue) -- Eric cleverly
> convinced me I wasn't doing enough, so I've got this ;-).  It's really
> rather satisfying.
> 
> So with that said, I want to ask the committers here that don't review
> other people's PRs to please do so, especially those of contributors.  You
> have powers they don't -- you can get something merged.  The contributor
> will be grateful; remember being in their shoes.  You can fully handle a PR
> responsiby without leaving the GitHub PR issue screen -- at least most of
> the time.
> 
> p.s. I'm also grateful for Crave.io for very fast builds... but we'll need
> to do without this by the end of the year :-(
> 
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley

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