Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751918Ab0DVGM6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:12:58 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:60408 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751738Ab0DVGM5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:12:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:12:42 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Joe Perches Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, LKML Subject: Re: What's the staging review and acceptance process? Message-ID: <20100422061242.GA28539@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> <1271915718.1730.687.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1271915718.1730.687.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1417 Lines: 41 On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:55:18PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > 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. Established where? What type of losses? > > > Unfortunately, your process has been opaque until you > > > personally handle it. > > Yes, like all subsystem maintainers, right? > > Not really, patchwork shows status immediately. Immediately when someone does something with it, right? So, the same as my development cycle? > > Are you volunteering? > > Guess so. For now, let me get through this patch queue. If you could review anything new coming in, that would be greatly appreciated, especially to weed out the problem patches. After everything is caught up, we can revisit it, ok? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/