On Sun, 05. Jul 23:42, Soft Works wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> > Michael Niedermayer
> > Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 1:18 AM
> > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> > de...@ffmpeg.org>
> > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Project orientation
> > 
> > On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 09:56:02PM +0000, Soft Works wrote:
> > > ... A significant part of code reviews are code-style violations. This
> > > is really not something where humans should need to spend time for
> > > when reviewing a patch.
> > 
> > you are correct but that is also the easy part of reviews.
> > Its not what makes reviews time consuming.
> > Rather while reviewing for technical stuff one notices maybe a formating
> > issue
> 
> When then reviewer would not have to look for code style and could
> assume that this is all right, he would be free to focus on the actual things.
> And when it's only about code-style, a reviewer would not need to
> review a patch two times (original + corrected) for checking whether 
> there were no other changes (imagine a multi-part patch).
> Also, the contributor would not have to wait two times for his patch 
> to get reviewed.
> 

> Continuous integration processing could also list compiler warnings
> isolated to the patch and help a reviewer spot issues that he might 
> have overlooked otherwise.

This is done already... and checked for every single commit in the series.
https://patchwork.ffmpeg.org/project/ffmpeg/patch/20200701164348.41647-1-hanish...@gmail.com/

-- 
Andriy
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