On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:17 AM, wraeth <wra...@wraeth.id.au> wrote: > I am one of the users who spoke to idella4 about this, but I wanted to > repeat this publicly in order to highlight the point of view of > contributing user as opposed to a developer. > > Firstly I would like to say that I appreciate feedback on my work - it > helps me to improve the quality of my work both for Gentoo and personally. > > I also agree whole-heartedly to the concept of the Reviewers project, in > that highlighting common improvements that could be made would benefit > both contributors who participate and Gentoo as a whole. > > Having said that, however, I do not appreciate the method in which these > criticisms were delivered, and believe it extends beyond the idea of > the Reviewers project. > > I feel that it is inappropriate for criticisms of contributor's work to > be broadcast on a mailing list that is read not only by the developer > community, but by users as well, without their consent. This is not a > case where I am particularly embarrassed or upset - if others can learn > from my mistakes, then they are mistakes I am happy to make (preferably > only once). But doing so publicly, with identifying information, is > inappropriate.
Good grief. Seriously? Mailing list review is the *norm* in the free software world. I haven't seen anything noted that should have caused embarrassment. This whole thing, as far as I can see, is about improving the quality of Gentoo. I have learned from the reviewers reviewing my commits and the commits of others. It's extremely valuable to do this in public and the idea that noting an error on a public mailing list is somehow bad is simply misguided.
