Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:20:05 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
       arjan@infradead.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:08:08PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:50:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > I can run the numbers, but almost every one of those changes has at
> > least 2 signed-off-by: on them, so they should all be being reviewed
> > properly.
> > 
> > > AFAICS, we are in situation when review bandwidth is where the bottleneck
> > > is.  Not the merge one...
> > 
> > Are there still large numbers of posted patches, not reviewed or picked
> > up by anyone laying around somewhere?  I thought Andrew-the-patch-vacuum
> > had been doing a great job of keeping that from happening lately.
> 
> Er...  Surely you can think of examples of patches that went through
> -mm without serious review?  Not to mention that 2 S-o-B normally
> means only one thing: "went to Linus through some tree".  Which does
> not guarantee any real review, as you damn well know.

Yes, I agree, there are lots of examples of this, but the overall
majority are reviewed by 2 people at least (or sure as hell should be,
maybe we need to bring into existance the "reviewed-by" marking to
ensure this.)

Do you know of a way to help this get better?

thanks,

greg k-h
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