On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, Maxime Ripard wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 09:03:27AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Frank Lee wrote: > > > > > ping...... > > > > "Please don't send content free pings and please allow a reasonable > > time for review. People get busy, go on holiday, attend conferences > > and so on so unless there is some reason for urgency (like critical > > bug fixes) please allow at least a couple of weeks for review. If > > there have been review comments then people may be waiting for those > > to be addressed. Sending content free pings just adds to the mail > > volume (if they are seen at all) and if something has gone wrong > > you'll have to resend the patches anyway so [RESEND]ing with any > > comments addressed is generally a much better approach." > > This is true to some extent, but pinging after a month doesn't seem > unreasonable either. Pinging is mostly a fruitless exercise. After a month, many Maintainers would have purged any un-serviced mails anyway. If a patch-set is left hanging, still requiring attention before the next version, submitting a [RESEND] is generally a better option. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
