[sfwnv-discuss] Curious reviewers quantity question (was Re: (Yet again) (hopefully) final idzebra webrev)

[Mark Martin]

Mike Sullivan wrote:
> Andre Molyneux wrote:
>> Mike Sullivan wrote:
>>>
>>> you need two reviewers now? usually that's reserved for release builds.
>>
>> I thought I did.  If not, I'm happy to proceed with one.
>
> usually the more eyes the better, so it's certainly not a problem if
> you get more than one.  but only one is generally required.
> as we get closer to milestone builds sometimes more than one reviewer,
> or particular reviewers, or even particular rti advocates are required -
> but we aren't doing that at the moment unless I've missed something.
Out of curiosity, what is the experience behind this?  It doesn't seem 
intuitive to me that code going into a "continuously deliverable" code 
base would require 2 reviewers at release time and only 1 any other 
time.  I'm sincerely interested in the rationale behind that.  Isn't it 
the same integrated code being delivered at release time, regardless of 
when it actually integrated?