[Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] Encouraging more reviewers

[Guenter Roeck]

>
> The thing I'd like to see way more in the Linux ecosystem:
>
> Paid reviewers/maintainers (selected people, no hiring offers). The
> number of developers increases faster than the number of quality
> keepers. So, the latter should be given the chance to focus on it, if
> they want to.
>

Problem with that is that in most company hierarchies code reviewers
get little  if no credit for their work. If anything, I have seen
the opposite - code reviewers, if they take their responsibility
serious, end up getting blamed for project delays because they keep
finding problems in the code.

Imagine a project where one employee writes the code and another
reviews it. Who do you think will get the credit (and bonus) ?
I bet it will be the person who wrote the code, not the person
who made sure that it is clean and free of bugs.

Guenter