[webkit-dev] Extra review requirement for web-facing API? (Was: Re: Spellcheck API for WebKit)

Ryosuke Niwa rniwa at webkit.org
Wed Jun 22 11:43:00 PDT 2011


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:

> I think it's better for our reviewers to review only things they're
> comfortable with.
>

But I don't think being comfortable may not necessarily mean that the
reviewer knows all implications of the change.


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov at chromium.org>
 wrote:
>
> To prevent this from happening again, we should remind everyone to:
>
> 1) Only review things they are comfortable with;
> 2) Seek WebKit elder's review for public-facing APIs
>
> I don't think we need an explicit two-level review policy. If
> anything, we need super-reviewers instead.


I'm supportive of super-reviewers idea.

- Ryosuke
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