[Python-Dev] Appeal for reviews

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 Apr 2014 08:42, "R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> > When considering who we give commit access to, I think we would be
> > well served to start giving more weight to the quality of the code
> > reviews that someone does.  Producing good patches is important,
> > but even without moving the infrastructure to Nick's "core reviewer"
> > model, doing those reviews is an important part of what committers
> > do, and it is a different (although related) skill to that of
> > writing good patches.
> >
> > Or to put it another way, I'd like to encourage contributors who
> > want to get commit access to focus just as much on doing good reviews as
> > they do on writing new patches.  Currently the focus is all on
> > getting patches accepted.
>
> Huh, I hadn't thought of it that way before, but it's a very good point.
>
Indeed. This is also a reflection of a good hiring policy for software
developers (wannabe startup founders pay attention): Don't just try to hire
brilliant coders -- look for people who work really well with a team.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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