On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:25:57PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 20:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > That caused the huge backlog staring at > > me right now. > > Which likely discouraged the new contributors who > submitted stuff still in that backlog. While a series of unfortunate events did happen to cause this, do you have any evidence of this causing people to go away? I have had a number of queries about pending patches, all of which I quickly responded to (travel being easy to write emails, just not do "real" work). > > I just went through 100 patches, and only 40 of them > > were "valid" and able to be applied, so it is a high rejection rate > > which requires a lot of attention to be paid to them. > > > > > What is your current review/notify/accept/reject workflow? > > > > Like it's always been: > > - patch comes in > > - I get around to reviewing it > > - if valid, I apply and you get an email > > - if invalid, I reject and say why in email > > Unfortunately, your process has been opaque until you > personally handle it. Yes, like all subsystem maintainers, right? > Does the driverdev list or any list always receive a copy > or the feedback? If it was copied, yes, it does. I can't control who the original submitters copy on their emails, but they usually do hit the driverdev mailing list for the most part. > > > Perhaps a patchwork queue for staging might help track these > > > patches and with more feedback or reviewers, get them in > > > shape to be applied. > > > patchwork doesn't work well for my patch flow, but maybe that is because > > I haven't spent enough time with it. Right now I have all the patches, > > it's just a matter of getting through them. > > Maybe you should get some advice on using patchwork use > from somebody like David Miller, who gets rather more > patches for networking than staging gets. The patchwork > queue for networking always seems managed and it can use > delegation, which your process doesn't seem capable of > doing. You're a voluntary bottleneck for staging, I > think you either need to find personal cycles or find > some other suckers willing to volunteer who'd make up > more overall cycles. Are you volunteering? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
