Publishing code reviews

[Roman Kennke]

Hi,

> >> The robot only sends e-mail messages to specific reviewers, not to
> >> mailing lists.  That's fine internally, but we should likely also have
> >> the robot cc: e-mails to the appropriate public lists so that anyone can
> >> read the review traffic.  These need not be the foo-dev lists; we could
> >> set up a parallel set of, say, foo-review lists.
> > 
> >   I guess it wouldn't hurt, but we don't do anything like
> >   that internally because most people don't care much
> >   about other's code reviews - there's enough traffic
> >   already. If they do, they're the reviewers =)
> 
> Having review traffic on mailing lists, where it can be indexed by
> search engines, proved invaluable to me time after time when I was
> dealing with some obscure 'not_quite_a_bug' in some piece of software,
> as it let me read my way into figuring out 'what the hell were they
> thinking' without having to tri-jump around mailing list archives,
> bugzilla, and CVS/SVN data.
> 
> So I'd suggest, for the sake of the future generations trying to find
> lost needles in the growing OpenJDK haystack, to flood the review lists.

I second that.

/Roman

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