Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

[kiasoc5]

On 2023-08-25 11:31, Attila Lendvai wrote:
> > I feel like the advantages of a email-based workflow nowadays is more 
> > on
> > the maintainer side of things (as managing large projects is easier
>
>
> another thing worth pointing out here is that the harder it is to test 
> a submitted patchset locally, the fewer non-committer reviews will 
> happen.
>
> and if all the review work rests on the shoulders of the committers, 
> then there'll be long response times on submissions, or straight out 
> forgotten/ignored submissions (khm). especially if it's about some hw 
> or some sw that none of the committers care about, or could test 
> locally (e.g. Trezor support: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65037 that 
> doesn't even build in master).

I would like to hear from committers if non-committer reviews are 
helpful, because I don't really know how or what I can comment on for 
incoming patches on packages I'm not really familiar with.

Also do "this builds and works locally" comments help?