[OpenLayers-Dev] Review of patches, etc.

[Christopher Schmidt]

I'm beginning to think I was a bit overzealous in stating that all
patches should require an external review. I've been watching OpenLayers
development lately, and although I agree that in principle, code review
is a good thing, I think that it has seriously hamstrung the project
over the past couple months, due to lack of development time from a few
core committers who were able to help move things forward in the past.

Getting more core committers is one helpful step in the right direction,
but it doesn't completely solve the problem: we're still blocking on
very simple (one line) patches due to lack of review.

I'd like to float the idea of allowing commits to trunk without review
at the discrestion of the patch author. We've got really great
committers, and I think we have the ability to decide when things
should/shouldn't go in without a review on every patch.

That said, when API functionality is involved, I think more thna one
person should be able to comment before it goes into trunk. So, I think
that any patch which adds new APIMethods or APIProperties should
probably be opened as a ticket, and comments should be sought on it
before it goes into trunk. Additionally, we should be more proactive in
discussing things both in tickets nd on the mailing lists when there is
a suggestion in API change.

How do other people feel about this? I don't want to continue to see one
line patches left open for 6 months due to lack of review.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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