[Typo3-dev] Extension reviewing process (request for discussion)

[Michael Scharkow]

Robert Lemke wrote:

>  - We need ideas for how the review process could be like in the future. 
>    You can imagine that it's a lot of work doing reviews (even quick
>    reviews) for all extensions. If reviews are important enough for the
>    community, it will be possible to get some sponsoring for the developers
>    doing reviews.

Hi Robert,

I really think reviewing is a community thing and the developers should 
not be bothered until "official approval" is needed.

See my other posts for suggestions.

> I agree. However it still have to be trustworthy and at least
> medium-experienced developers doing such a quick review.

I think self-recruitment is an option, like in many other open source 
projects, people can participate at a basic level, like reporting bugs, 
or reviewing extensions, and then gain a reputation by doing a good job 
at that, leading to a more prominent "reviewer" role. This bottom-up 
approach is still very rare in the Typo3 development, in many situations 
in the past Kasper has delegated responsibility to trusted people like 
Ingmar, Daniel and you which is good for stability but a lot of work for 
the selected few ;)

> What do you think about a reviewing weekend? We would me for a
> Friday-to-Sunday reviewing session together with Kasper, René and whoever
> wants to join. 

That's exactly my point: You three are doing too much work already (only 
  in the last week I read in this NG that you are taking over typo3.org, 
the TER and some dozen other important things). Don't get me wrong, I 
appreciate your and the other core-devs work a lot and I cannot imagine 
how you find the time and energy to do it, but I think you really should 
not be bothered with maintaining the community website, moderating the 
newsgroups, keeping the FAQs up-to-date, etc. These are community things 
which can also be done by none-devs.

Greetings,
Michael