On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 06:26:57AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:37:37AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > Greg > > > > Thanks for your unfathomable patience dealing with kernel newbies. I > > have a small suggestion, in a most humble manner. > > > > It seems that when patches don't apply the response is not > > automated, if it is possible within your system to automate checking > > if a patch actually applies would it be beneficial to point the patch > > submitter towards tracking remote branches (i.e are they basing their > > patches on on your staging-testing branch). > > Normally my response is automated, and staging-testing doesn't get > abused like it currently is right now. But we are in the middle of both > the merge window, and the Outreachy intern application process, so it's > a mess. Normally during the merge window I do not touch any patches, so > things back up for 2 weeks. But due to Outreachy happening right now, > that's not very fair to the applicants, so I'm queueing up patches in > staging-testing at the moment to give them a chance to get things > accepted. > > And because I'm taking Outreachy patches, I'm taking all other staging > patches as well, to keep from playing favorites with just that limited > group. > > So, it's messy, and not normal (happens only once a year or so). So you > can just wait another week to do any staging patches, or just live with > the mess for a few more days until my "normal" branches open up :) > > Hope this helps, > > greg k-h Woops, Julia already told me to stop doing small patches until the merge window closed. I must be a slow learner. thanks, Tobin. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
