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Josh Berkus wrote: > I wasn't thinking about doing it every year -- just for 9.3, in order to > encourage more reviewers, and encourage reviewers to do more reviews. - -1. It's not cool to set it up and then stop it the next go round. You want more reviewers? Start by streamlining the process as much as possible. I pretended I was new to the project and tried to figure out how to review something. The homepage has no mention of reviewers, not even if you drill down on some subpages. A Google search does lead one to: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reviewing_a_Patch It has some good "you can do it" wordage. However, there is no clear path on how to actually start reviewing. There is this paragraph with two links in it: "The current commitfest is here[1] and has plenty of room for you to help. You can sign up to become a Round Robin Reviewer here[2]. Once you have, write a mail to the list introducing yourself." [1] Leads to the commitfest, with a nice summary, but no way for new people to know what to do. [2] This link is even worse (http://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-rrreviewers/) It's an archive list for pgsql-rrreviewers, with no way to subscribe and certainly no indication on it or the previous page that "sign up" means (one might guess) join the mailing list. Anyway, just food for thought as far as attracting new people. It should be much easier and more intuitive. As far as "rewarding" current reviewers, put the names in the release notes, after each item. Full stop. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201306271636 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAlHMoqIACgkQvJuQZxSWSsgCPACgovKYtxJV59Xro0MlxPDEHIy6 pmAAoOLOAlpO/dPlJbyHypdcY4ZxLCit =RwMh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers