One small edge-case scenario problem

Submitted by sun on 31. October 2009 - 20:59.

One problem I just realized - and we indeed have that problem already - is that when a sub-system maintainer AND a code gardener are working on a patch, they will have hard times to find someone for peer-reviews, because already two people of a very small group of people being able to do quality reviews basically cannot really sign off that patch.

Additionally, there is very likely a too high trust-level for any peer-reviewers in the game - because both a sub-system maintainer and code gardener worked on a patch - so how bad and wrong can it really be...? :-/

Hence, that is clearly the scenario where a patch may only get peer-reviews from people that worked on the patch, and core branch maintainers may be involved too early.

Not really sure whether that is really an edge-case scenario or perhaps even happens way too often.

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