[python-committers] PQM?

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:54 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
[SNIP]
>> Anyway, if we're going to change policies around submitting code, I
>> would much rather see peer review become a habit than adopt a tool
>> like PQM.
>
> The part where I'm skeptical about such a policy is that there might
> be a shortage of reviewers. What if a patch on Rietvield doesn't find
> a reviewer for a month or so? Many patches in the tracker sit there
> for years without any committer reviewing them.
>

It would be a change in culture for us, that's for sure. The question
becomes whether the drop in patch throughput is justified by an
increase of patch quality and stability in the code?

-Brett