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Perhaps the biggest action you can do to help GNU Guix grow as a project is to review the work contributed by others. You do not need to be a committer to do so; applying, reading the source, building, linting and running other people’s series and sharing your comments about your experience will give some confidence to committers. Basically, you must ensure the check list found in the Envío de parches section has been correctly followed. A reviewed patch series should give the best chances for the proposed change to be merged faster, so if a change you would like to see merged hasn’t yet been reviewed, this is the most appropriate thing to do!
Review comments should be unambiguous; be as clear and explicit as you can about what you think should be changed, ensuring the author can take action on it. Please try to keep the following guidelines in mind during review:
When you deem the proposed change adequate and ready for inclusion within Guix, the following well understood/codified ‘Reviewed-by: Your Name <your-email@example.com>’ 66 line should be used to sign off as a reviewer, meaning you have reviewed the change and that it looks good to you:
If you are not a committer, you can help others find a series you
have reviewed more easily by adding a reviewed-looks-good
usertag for
the guix
user (see Debbugs Usertags).
The tendency to discuss minute details at length is often referred to as “bikeshedding”, where much time is spent discussing each one’s preference for the color of the shed at the expense of progress made on the project to keep bikes dry.
The ‘Reviewed-by’ Git trailer is used by other projects such as Linux, and is understood by third-party tools such as the ‘b4 am’ sub-command, which is able to retrieve the complete submission email thread from a public-inbox instance and add the Git trailers found in replies to the commit patches.
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