[TYPO3-core] Looking for reviewers to get some long pending patches through.

[Bart Dubelaar]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for your reply and help!

We have a workflow set up where all editors only have access to a draft 
workspace and everything needs to go trough a formal review process. As such 
we have gained a lot of user experience with workspaces. 
As a developer I've been digging in the workspaces code for at least 6 
months now in order to fix encountered bugs, and explain unexpected 
behavior.

So if it comes to workspaces, I would be glad to help out when some 
expertise on the code or on user experiences is desired.

Additionally, what I have experienced so far is that the workspaces 
integration in the core is far from mature. Just try to work in a draft 
workspace only for a while and you'll encounter a lot :-)

Areas that are quite buggy are for example: frontend previewing of access 
restricted content, history/undo, backend search, availability of old 
publications (old versions), etc. Combined with the fact that workspaces is 
advertised as one of the major enterprise features, I am surprised that 
there are so little devs in this area. No hard feelings, just surprised.

Kind regards,
Bart


Christian Kuhn wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> On 06/12/2012 10:09 AM, Bart Dubelaar wrote:
>> I have had some very good help from Stefan Neufeind and Tolleiv Nietsch
>> but still I am having a very hard time getting the patches through the
>> approval process in Gerrit. Some of the patches are pending since January
>> while not much has changed to the patch itself.
> 
> Yes, you are a victim of the low review rate at gerrit, and I'm sorry
> for that.
> This is especially true for patches that do not have a major subset of
> developers used to it. It is still true that not too many people have in
> depth knowledge of the issues with the workspace / versioning and have
> problems to get a feeling for the underlying complex code and possible
> side effects with patches.
> 
> I have the mentioned issues on my radar and will try to review soon, but
> I'm also not a workspace / version expert. We'll also try to trigger
> more devs in this area for reviews.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Christian