On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometime this type of high-level summary review does happen, at the senior
> person's whim, but is not a formal part of the commit fest process.
>
> What I don't know is how much work it takes for one of those senior people
> to make one of those summary judgments, compared to how much it takes for
> them to just do an entire review from scratch.
IME, making such summary judgements can often be done in a few
minutes, but convincing that the patch submitter that you haven't
created the objection purely as an obstacle to progress is the work of
a lifetime. We could perhaps do better at avoiding perverse
incentives, there.
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