On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 22:34 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Joe Perches wrote: > > > Patches submitted to the trivial address > > trivial@xxxxxxxxxx seem to go nowhere slowly. > > > > Jiri, do you have any actual plans to try to > > pick up these patches, notify the submitters > > that the patches have been accepted or rejected, > > and forward them on when appropriate? > > > > Otherwise, the patches sit for _months_ without > > any action. That's simply too long. > > > > Should another mechanism or pathway be created > > instead? > > Joe, > > I disagree. Please look at what is happening in trivial.git over longer > period of time. I need to look at years instead of months? Would US Presidental election cycles or decades be better timeframes? > The patches I am holding off are larger series which are submitted both to > trivial@ and maintainers as well. What makes something "large" to you? This is a 7 line patch that corrects logging defects that has had no reply from you for the last month. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2833648/ > With such pathces, it's not clear who is > taking (which parts of) what, hence I hold them off for long time, and get > back to it eventually later. > It's time consuming, as I have to check linux-next for those patches, > hence it's delayed. No, I think you don't have to do that checking. When I submit patches to trivial, they are submitted to you with a simple, polite cc to the nominal maintainer(s). You delay these patches and you also provide no feedback as to whatever status may or may not exist to the handling of these patches. You're very opaque to these patches being handled or ignored. For instance, the ctl_table typedef removal series from over 2 months ago: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/13/650 Originally, 33 patches sent to trivial (you) broken out by subsystem with cc's to nominal maintainers. Not a single reply to this by you to the series. You did apply 2 of the 33 when the other nominal maintainers supplied "acked-by"s. I submitted another single aggregated patch with the unapplied remainders a month ago and there's been no action by you at all on it. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/22/600 I think that's overly long a time frame (any patch series will bitrot) and too opaque for trivial patch submitters to have any idea what's going on. Also, if you're concerned that the trivial tree wouldn't merge well in next, couldn't you use pull+rebase to work out whether or not a patch has already been applied in another tree? cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
