The New Reviewers List

[Jouni Heikniemi]

Benton, Kevin wrote:
> That's my whole point - if the reviewer changes in the role address
> model (versus the personal address model), the destination doesn't
> change.  They still use the filename-... role account.  It also allows
> the people doing the reviews for a particular component of Bugzilla to
> see the entire list of reviews being requested rather than some get one
> list and others get a different one.  :)  I've thought this through and
> used this type of method before - it really works well. :)

IMO, role accounts don't cut it. A review in your personal queue feels 
considerably more urgent than one in a "anyone can do it" queue. For me, 
it's a personal matter of honor to keep my review queue short (not that 
I hadn't failed at times, though), but I wouldn't take the same attitude 
towards a "component queue". Remember, the whole debate started from the 
fact that the current role queue ("from the wind", aka "any reviewer") 
never got any attention.

Besides, one of the key aims here is to get new contributors closer to 
the reviewer team, and it's easier to become friends with a person 
instead of a role. That said, your arguments do have validity (and I've 
successfully used the system you described, too) - it's just that I'm 
not sure the concept would be the best solution _here_. I say we should 
try the personal approach and think again if this fails.


Jouni