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[Ken Pepple <ken.pepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 21, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> Sure, we just need to remove it automatically selecting "Nova Core" and likewise as a reviewer for you so that people are forced to explicitly add a reviewer.


sorry to come in late in the discussion, but i believe this is a bad idea.

imho, this raises another barrier between potential developers wanting to contribute and actually contributing. specifically, it assumes that a newbie to the project "knows" a nova-core member. 

they don't -- i am not sure the nova-core list is even publicly posted. 

just in my own case, it took me several days of signing contracts, figuring out the toolset/standards, revising the patches, adding myself to wikis and hanging out of IRC before i could get single line of code into nova. at any of those points, i could have simply said *** (expletive deleted) … 

bottom line, we should be making it easier for people to contribute not harder :)

having said that, i understand what you are trying to do. 
so, as a counter proposal, can we implement a round-robin or smart routing (based on file names or modules) reviewer assignment ? 
failing that, could we assign everything to ttx (sorry) and he can assign reviewers ?
failing that, could we give them a list of potential reviewers (with some good instructions) to choose from ?

please correct me if i misconstrued your proposal
/k