Re: [bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu: GCC review process: how to handle external submissions]

[Jason Molenda <jmolenda@apple.com>]

> From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>
> To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: GCC review process: how to handle external submissions
> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 00:40:09 -0600 (CST)
>
>
> I think we have a serious problem here. We are not only losing the
> contributions from these people, we are also scaring them away, and I
> don't think this is wise.
>
> Can we at least discuss the reasons for this, and maybe come up with
> suggestions about how we could improve this process? I think it would 
> be
> tremendously helpful if there were someone who


And to further demonstrate that we're all discussing the same problem 
at the same time, this came up on the subversion-dev list last week.  
Their approach is to have humans do it by hand.  cf

	http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=32389

It's an interesting approach -- it takes advantage of the idea that 
there are many volunteers interested in helping a project but aren't 
hacker gods.  On the other hand, it assumes that the volunteer won't 
disappear or let things drop on the floor if he runs short on time...

J