Re: CVS Account Request

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Another option is to have a two-person commit system for all code and all > > committers, where one person writes the code and then someone trusted, who > > volunteers for the job commits the code for that area of php (thus giving > > responsibility to two people, and hopefully, assuring that the code has > > been qa'ed). > > Sterling, unless you are willing and have time do do this peer-review > yourself, there isn't much point in suggesting it. > > This review-then-commit approach was tried in the Apache project and it > finally had to be abandoned because the backlog of contributions piled up > to the point that contributors got frustrated and gave up when they did > not receive a timely response. Yeah. It might be applicable during the release phase and only on the release-specific branch. But that is a complete separate issue. - Sascha