On 4/28/2011 12:18 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote:
And if the committers can't choose what they are going to work on, you
are likely going find yourself with a lot fewer committers fairly soon.
As you notice, I never said they are limited what they work on. The
order of the work is the focus.
And who is going to do all that extra work? You volunteering?
If finding a volunteer is the only thing holding a reform back, then we
have nothing to worry about.
Details indeed, and the devil is in the details as the saying goes.
First of all there is no entity that knows about the timeline,
availability, etc. of the various committers. The only way to get that
information would be if committers were to report it at regular
intervals which they don't have any reason to do.
I thought it was clear that I was saying that wouldn't work.
There is also the question of what to do if a committer doesn't like
all the proposed extra rules and bureacracy and simply ignores a PR he
has been assigned. There isn't really any way force a given committer
to work on something he doesn't want to work on. The only sanction
available is to remove the commit bit at which point you have one
committer less, and that work still isn't done.
I was working the assumption that he agrees to the port up front or
voluntarily picks up the next task. However, if someone has a repeated
history of refusals or only wants to do a very narrow set of tasks, then
maybe commit bit removal isn't that dramatic.
Worth it for who? Hardly to the guy who is going to do the extra work.
As for "fair" you haven't convinced me why it should be a requirement.
I don't consider it extra work. I consider it doing the job correctly.
And if I need to convince you that "fair" is correct, then basically I
just wasted 5 minutes answering this post. Jerry pretty much outlined
why it's correct to process these things in order, or at some semblance
of order.
Look, your mind is made up. You like the status quo. Everything is
fine and no effort should be made to improve. I'm not interested in a
long, drawn out discussion. I just wanted to give my opinion which I
did, so I'm done.
John
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