On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 15:08 +0100, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 14:49 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
wrote:
> Unfortunately review swaps don't work for new packagers, before they are
> sponsored. They are encouraged to do informal reviews, but those reviews
> don't carry formal weight. I propose to change this, and allow non-sponsored
> packagers to do formal reviews, except that an actual packager with review
> rights has to ack the review.
This is exactly what informal reviews are.
As far as I understand the current informal reviews require even more
people to be involved than the formal reviews. They can be hardly a
solution to the problem of not having enough reviewers.
regards,
Nikos