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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Christian Robottom Reis
<kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 03:03:56PM +0100, Tom Berger wrote:
>> When we came up with on call reviews and the reviews channel, there
>> were two things very different from now:
>>
>> 1. Only about a third of the developers on the regular team were reviewers.
>> 2. We wanted a channel that's focused on code, rather than operation.
>
> I still think the "focused" part of the latter holds. OCR is precious,
> and reviewer time is precious, and having the channel quiet unless
> reviews are happening is a good way of preserving that.
>

It's not precious in AsiaPac. The OCR generally has a significant
amount of spare time.

How is reviewer time more precious than developer time?

> I don't think it's a problem if people want to do occasional reviews on
> -dev; I just think it's best if the OCR works on a separate channel.

I think it's worth doing an experiment.

jml