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Why a different distribution mechanism

Why a different distribution mechanism

Posted Sep 23, 2011 2:28 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Why a different distribution mechanism by bronson
Parent article: Managing GNOME shell extensions

Sorry, I didn't realize the extent that you were picturing using code review...

> Why should an important bug fix be blocked on the same process?

You're going to hold all code until a qualified reviewer can look at it. Given the endemic shortage of qualified code reviewers, I'm pretty sure the code will be blocked on your site's own reviewers longer than they'll be blocked on some Debian/RedHat maintainer.


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