Open Stack

Hi all,

Recently, I did something crazy and got into the "top 10" reviewers for 
OpenStack in a 30/60 day window. Admittedly, this was for documentation 
  - which is quite a bit different than code - but the experience did 
give me a small window of insight into the challenge faced by our 
venerable core reviewers. It's a really tough job!

One of the aspects that I noticed in doing so many reviews is that a 
review was much easier to perform if another reviewer had been through 
it beforehand. That is, a patch had gone through a couple of -1 
iterations to finally get a +1 before I saw it.

This made me think a little about how much emphasis we place as a 
community on +2 reviews. It can seem at times like they're the only 
reviews we care about. Hell, I've even heard song lyrics from a 
community member that imply this :D

I think it's time to bend that focus slightly, and promote the role of 
the +1 reviewers. Every review that a non-core reviewer does helps 
reduce the burden of core reviewers just that little bit.

Do you see this too? How can we help encourage more +1 reviews?

Anyway, here's cheers to all the non-core reviewers :)


Regards,


Tom