Re: Patch meister position still vacant!!!

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:26:45AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> James <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Anyway, assuming that no one else offers, I'll take a look and make
>> > a start of it on Wednesday.
>> 
>> I certainly think you a good fit for that position.  The problem is
>> that you are a good fit for a _lot_ of positions, and, for example,
>> make very good and thorough manual patch reviews.
>
> I echo those concerns.  It should take 15-30 minutes a week.  It's
> a purely mechanical secretary job.  Trivial for a non-developer to
> learn.

I disagree with that characterization which does not do justice to job
Colin has been doing and the rather thorough start James had made.  It
is not a "purely mechanical" job since it involves reading the reviews
and judging when concerns have been addressed and when not and what to
best do about that.  The advantage of the job over the "Patchy review"
job is that it does not involve installing or compiling any software.

At any rate, I've been offloading that job because I was getting
overwhelmed.  Now part of the reason is that I don't necessarily have
the best personality to deal with that kind of responsibility and
conflict of interest.  But part of it _is_ that it definitely is a
non-trivial amount of work and judgment, and that is why Colin needed a
sabbatical from it.

I'll pitch in with Patchy reviews somewhat to compensate, but I think
that James is currently taking more of a load than I think good in the
long term.

-- 
David Kastrup