Making It Easier To Start Working On Bugzilla

[Gervase Markham]

Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> At that point, I have two choices: First, I can tell the contributor 
> what I dislike. Second, I can fix the problems for myself and pull the 
> patch in. (Or, if a review is required, I can attach a modified version 
> of the patch.)
> 
>  From my experience, Bugzilla developers will *always* choose the first 
> alternative. I do not know, what the reasons are. It may be lack of 
> time, but my personal impression is, that accepting the patch will 
> sometimes be less work than reviewing a modified patch again.

One factor for me is that if I take a patch on and fix it up, because of 
the Bugzilla review process, it then means that I am now responsible for 
finding someone to review it. My role turns from reviewer to patch 
submitter. And, knowing how difficult getting reviews is, I don't want 
to take that on!

So the problem amplifies itself - reviews being difficult to get leads 
to that burden being placed on newbies.

Perhaps we could relax the rules so a person could still review a patch 
to which they had personally made "minor" review markups.

Gerv