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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:06:16 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Organization: YPO4
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To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
       Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
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Subject: Re: What's the staging review and acceptance process?
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John W. Linville wrote:
> 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.


Just from a patch submitter perspective, I'd like to see some kind of
response.  I can believe what you say about patchwork, so I wouldn't
advocate it.

I agree to Joe's perspective that Greg is overbooked regarding time.
I think that this is an ongoing problem, not just a current one that
will go away, so for me, the question is what is Greg willing to do
about it?

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~Randy
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