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From:   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Hi Borislav,

On 5/20/2020 11:35 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:32:02AM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> 
>> It seems inappropriate that I have the title of maintainer and not be
>> able to have patches considered for inclusion during an entire release
>> cycle.
> 
> Well, we try very hard to be fair when looking at patchsets. In your
> case, I already took a patchset from you this cycle and there are other
> patchsets waiting for a lot longer than yours - even patchsets from your
> colleagues at Intel.
> 
> So I understand that you think it might be inappropriate but please try
> to understand it also from our standpoint in that we try to round-robin
> between everyone as fair as possible.

I understand now. Thank you very much.

> 
> So I will try to look at yours in the next days but I cannot promise you
> anything.

Please don't. That would be unfair to everybody waiting longer then me
as well set a bad precedent.

Reinette