making review/bug filing optional for some docs changes

[Benton, Kevin]

I wouldn't mind being a docs reviewer. :)  Granted, I may have things to
learn before I could be really effective, but I wouldn't mind doing it.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: developers-owner at bugzilla.org
[mailto:developers-owner at bugzilla.org]
> On Behalf Of Maxwell Kanat-Alexander
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:23 PM
> To: developers at bugzilla.org
> Subject: Re: making review/bug filing optional for some docs changes
> 
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 18:24 -0800, Myk Melez wrote:
> > I only have anecdotal examples.  Here's a docs fix I made a few days
ago
> > and which started me thinking about the issue:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286265
> >
> > Filing the bug and getting review took more time than making the
change
> > and checking it in, which is tremendously inefficient for patches
like
> > this with a high likelihood of being good as is (or at least good
> enough).
> 
> 	Yeah, looks like we just need more docs reviewers. :-) Or at
least,
> perhaps a more coordinated way of quickly reviewing trivial changes.
> 
> 	I do think that that change needed review, but the review should
> have
> been faster, because the change was obviously correct. I think that
> perhaps I have an idea for a solution to that:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286822#c3
> 
> 	I wouldn't guarantee that all such changes would be obviously
> correct. :-)
> 
> 	-Max
> 
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