Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753777Ab0DVFzX (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:55:23 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1687 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753476Ab0DVFzU (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:55:20 -0400 Subject: Re: What's the staging review and acceptance process? From: Joe Perches To: Greg KH Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, LKML In-Reply-To: <20100422054902.GA28037@suse.de> References: <1271881967.1730.482.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <20100422034532.GA25177@suse.de> <1271910357.1730.627.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <20100422054902.GA28037@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:55:18 -0700 Message-ID: <1271915718.1730.687.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 26 On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:25:57PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 20:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > That caused the huge backlog staring at me right now. > > Which likely discouraged the new contributors who > > submitted stuff still in that backlog. > do you have any evidence of this causing people to go away? I think it's pretty established that response delays cause losses of one type or another. > > Unfortunately, your process has been opaque until you > > personally handle it. > Yes, like all subsystem maintainers, right? Not really, patchwork shows status immediately. > Are you volunteering? Guess so. -- 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/