Andrew Haley wrote:
Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
Perhaps could be discussed at the summit some way to increase the set of
reviewers, i.e. the set of people able to say Ok to a patch submitted on
gcc-patches@
As I understand it, the set of reviewers allowed to say OK to a patch is
limited to the set of people capable of reviewing these patches. That is,
there is a limited set of people with enough real knowledge of gcc to
approve a patch.
I know a lot of people who fully understand many of the patches I did
submit, and who are not able to say Ok (because' their plain maintainer
status disallows that).
And there are some patches which I did comment about, which I believe I
did understand, and of course which I am not allowed to approve. I am
certainly not alone in that case!
My feeling is on the contrary that the set of people having a real
knowledge of gcc (or at least of substantial parts of it [*]) is much
bigger than the set of reviewers allowed to say OK.
Regards.
PS. [note *] GCC is a huge software, so understanding well a part of it
could be enough to understand some patches. And GCC is a huge software,
so the set of people understanding all of it is shrinking; perhaps even
it could be empty! (I never met any person claiming to understand all of
GCC; for sure I will never understand all of it.).
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