Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932410Ab0DVUXo (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:23:44 -0400 Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:58443 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757740Ab0DVUAQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:00:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:58:53 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Olivier Galibert , Greg KH , Joe Perches , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, LKML Subject: Re: What's the staging review and acceptance process? Message-ID: <20100422195852.GA2391@tuxdriver.com> 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> <20100422061242.GA28539@suse.de> <20100422064244.GA31653@dspnet.fr.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100422064244.GA31653@dspnet.fr.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1239 Lines: 27 On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:42:45AM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:12:42PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:55:18PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > Not really, patchwork shows status immediately. > > > > Immediately when someone does something with it, right? So, the same as > > my development cycle? > > I guess the main difference is that patchwork allows one contributor > to see that his patch has just not been checked yet, vs. missed/lost. In Greg's defense, I find patchwork to be fairly unwieldy (which is why I don't use it). It is certainly possible that I am missing some key feature, but my limited experience with it suggested to me that all the clicky-clicky stuff required to deal with the individual messages queued in patchwork nearly doubled my time overhead associated with merging patches. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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/