Re: [9.4 CF 1] The Commitfest Slacker List

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, PostgreSQL-Dev <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-06-24T17:53:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 06/24/2013 10:48 AM, Claudio Freire wrote:

>>> Reviewer recognition should be on the same level as the submitter.
>>
>> The problem with that is that that HUGELY depends on the patch and the
>> review. There are patches where reviewers do a good percentage of the
>> work and others where they mostly tell that "compiles & runs".
>
>
> Well, you can't so arbitrarily pick who you're recognizing as
> contributor and who you aren't. So why not mention them all? They did
> work for it, some more than others, but they all worked. And since
> whoever submitted a patch (and got it committed) must have reviewed
> something as well, they'd be recognized for both reviewing and
> submitting.
>

Exactly. Just make it a simple policy:

Submitters and Reviewers are listed in that order:

Submitter, reviewer, reviewer

That way submitter gets first bill, satisfying the ego (as well as 
professional consideration) but reviewers are also fully recognized.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drkae

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