On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Antoine Pitrou <antoine@python.org> wrote:

Le 09/01/2015 23:47, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit :
>
> Antoine and Victor argued that new developers should first
> show their skills by submitting patches to tickets, working
> with other core devs before getting the commit bit set.
>
> My suggestion was allowing new developers to start committing
> patches themselves before having worked on dozens of tickets
> using the usual patch approach.

What would that bring? Reverting commits or asking people to make post
hoc changes is much more bothersome than making pre-commit code reviews.

And I don't see how it's beneficial to ask developers to commit up front
while we're trying to promote a culture of code review, anyway.

I'm with Antoine here.

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