[vlc-devel] [PATCH] coreaudio: fix deadlock on interruption

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le tiistaina 12. joulukuuta 2017, 18.50.22 EET Carola Nitz a écrit :
> So correct me if I’m wrong, but we both want to spent less time on reviews
> here and do it right correct ? To avoid another “obviously wrong patch”,
> (wasting my time in creating it and yours in reviewing it) would it be
> possible that you could just tell me how to do it instead ?

Probably for the past ten years in a row, I have been writing the most 
technical content (cumulating documentation, commit messages and code 
reviews). I have neither motivation nor time to write even more - even less 
now that I noticed the propensity to ignore or skip more detailed explanations 
and documentations more.

The VLC specifics involved in this specific patch series are actually well 
documented. Unlike many other VLC subsystems I wrote the effing documentation. 
I should not have had to re-explain those details again. The rest is generic C 
language. As for the circular buffer issue, it is not only a generic C issue, 
but I have *already* highlighted it on this very mailing list... so this makes 
a great example of how explaining things ends up a waste of my time.

Besides, the goal of the review is to sort out what can/should be merged, not 
to solve the problems of the reviewee. Plus, as far as I am aware, usage of my 
time is discretionary.


Those are my views and I am well aware that the last sentence clashes with the 
mainstream open-source guidelines for code review or more generally dealing 
with new or less experienced community members.

Those guidelines are solely focused on attracting more people. They fail to 
address the issues of reviewer burn-out and how time spent in review or 
training is not spent on design, development and debugging. It is high time 
that the open-source community adopts more pragmatic guidelines, whereby the 
finite availability of qualified human resources (time, motivation) is taken 
into serious consideration.


tl;dr: I will only give explanations when I see fit, and I increasingly rarely 
see fit.

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