Hi,
sending multiple emails...
Robert Osfield wrote:
_On the subject others taking on "trivial" submissions:_
I would also like to add in answer to another of your points from the
other thread, it's not the trivial submissions that take up significant
amount of the time I put into managing submissions. Genuinely trivial
submissions take a very small amount of my time, just a couple of
minutes per submission. Taking trivial submissions off my hands will
make very little difference to my personal load.
There is also a potential downside as what might seem a trivial solution
could in fact be a regression, or a change in behavior that will have
unforeseen consequences - knowing when this might happen is not a
trivial thing, it's where experience of the whole history of the project
comes in very useful. So who decides whether it's trivial or not?
Making this decision can often take as long as the submission itself...
take me out of the loop completely and we loose a lot of the per review
horse power as doing reviews of 10's of thousands of submissions over
the last decade has taught me a lot that is difficult to pass on.
like you've said, this experience is difficult to acquire and pass on,
but the only way other people would get this experience is if they get
their hands dirty. It need not be on the trunk, maybe on a branch (or if
using a dvcs on their own tree).
rgds
jp
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