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Re: [PATCH] Suggest applicants to participate in review of other peoples' patches

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 6, 2015, 21:57 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 12:53:57PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> Idea and most of the wording comes from Junio's message on the list. I
>> added a hint to include links to review in the application (which makes
>> the suggestion a bit stronger since it implies that it will be taken into
>> account in the selection).
>
> Seems reasonable. I do not know what the quality of reviews will be from
> applicants, but I guess we will find out. :)

I actually was hoping to see an applicant replaying the review comments given to him to another applicant that makes the same kind of mistakes. That is a fairly easy entry to get into reviewing process---even you may not yet know what you are suggesting the other to do is the norm in this community, if a more experienced person told you something similar, it would be likely it is.

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Message 4 of 5 in “GSoC applicants: discuss other applicants patches, perhaps?”
  1. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2015
  2. Suggest applicants to participate in review of other peoples' patchesMatthieu Moy, Mar 6, 2015
  3. Jeff KingMar 6, 2015
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2015
  5. Matthieu MoyMar 8, 2015

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