Proposal to revise forest graph and integration practices for JDK 9

[Jeremy Manson]

Thanks, Mark.  Sounds fine to me.

Jeremy


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:56 PM, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:

> 2013/11/26 1:59 -0800, jeremymanson at google.com:
> > ...
> >
> > I suppose that the main question is, with a 10MLOC codebase, and scores
> of
> > developers, do you trust everyone with a committer bit to do the right
> > thing all of the time?  The answer might very well be yes.
>
> I think the answer is that we trust everyone with a Reviewer bit to do
> the right thing all of the time.  (The bar for becoming a Reviewer is
> much higher than that for becoming a Committer.)
>
> Reviewers are, in particular, expected to "know what they don't know,"
> to echo a point that Joe made earlier.  Reviewers asked to review
> changes outside their areas of expertise should politely decline the
> request.
>
> - Mark
>