Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752512AbaLSLqL (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:46:11 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56454 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751364AbaLSLqJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:46:09 -0500 Message-ID: <54940C4D.6010405@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:30:21 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fam Zheng CC: One Thousand Gnomes , Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Stefan Hajnoczi Subject: Re: patch tracking tools (was Re: Maintainer abuse) References: <20141212234336.GA28451@pd.tnic> <20141213135231.5684cf9d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <5492A8F0.9030107@redhat.com> <20141218132505.GB21344@fam-t430.nay.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20141218132505.GB21344@fam-t430.nay.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 18/12/2014 14:25, Fam Zheng wrote: > > One thing that makes automation a bit easier for QEMU is that it does > > not have a merge window; while we do have a central committer that takes > > pull requests, the phases are a bit more traditional (2 month > > development, 2 weeks preparation for freeze, 1 month feature freeze). > > For Linux it would be more important for the tool to know which patches > > are for which tree, possibly based on the destination mailing lists. > > Things can be complicated, for example patch series dependencies. It's a > question to think about whether we need it to be complete or want to keep it > simple. I think we want to keep it simple. Patch series dependencies complicate the job for the maintainer too. Andrea Arcangeli reminded me later of the obvious: for Linux such a tool could simply use the linux-next tree as a base. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/