Applications Lifecycle Policy

[Martin Flöser]

Am 2017-07-12 00:20, schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> El dimecres, 5 de juliol de 2017, a les 21:37:09 CEST, Martin Flöser va
> escriure:
>> Am 2017-07-04 13:20, schrieb Jonathan Riddell:
>> > The applications lifecycle policy needs an update
>> >
>> > Is this a good current state of it or are there more stages?
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm now going to propose a rather radical change to the process:
>> 
>> 
>> 3. Remove the 2 week Review process
> 
> If we don't have review, at which point do i say:
>  * Your i18n handling is broken
>  * Your library installed headers will be a pain to maintain ABI
>  * etc
> 
> Never?
> 
> The review process for me is a way to make you realize that things you 
> didn't
> think were important now suddenly are since you want to be a grownup.

Please see my other replies to this thread which also discuss how I 
imagine this to work for the translation team.

> 
> Of course you can break it again later but I would like to hope that 
> once told
> how to do those things properly it may be easier to keep them doing 
> right

Right, like KWin where I am the fourth maintainer after review. That's 
my whole point: replace the review with automated checks always running.

Cheers
Martin