Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:30:16 +0100 | From | Ben Dooks <> | Subject | Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support |
| |
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:24:45PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:15:10AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 13:38 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 05:00:30AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > > From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:49:12 +0100 > > > > > > > > > I can not keep up with the number of patches that need to be > > > > > reviewed and ultimately merged. I know this, and I freely admit it, > > > > > and I have done so on many occasions. > > > > > > > > Then split up the responsibilities to other people instead of being > > > > the choke point. Controlling everything isn't so important. > > > > > > Don't you think that I've been trying to get other people to be more > > > involved? > > > > > > - I've been pushing people to send patches to the relevent mailing > > > list(s) and maintainer(s) for years. > > > > > > - I've been pushing people to send their ARM patches to the ARM > > > mailing list rather than directly into the patch system for review > > > (it even has a comment telling people this) so that others can get > > > involved in reviewing them, and sharing that work load. > > > > > > Do you think either have been anywhere near successful? > > [] > > > I've been trying to get greater participation > > > but it's just not happening. > > > > I suggest you stop using subscriber-only mailing lists and > > use linux-arm@vger.kernel.org. > > This is main point here is to offload Russell. > One way to offload Russell is to have competent people reviewing platform > code for ARM. This is best done by other platform people. > Me and you - we can helpt. But the people where we need higher > involvement are already on the list.
Personally, I'm not on linux-arm@vger.kernel.org and don't plan on being there either. If people are too stupid to read the maintainers entry and realise that linux-arm-kernel is moderated and they might thus have to subscribe to post there then they can be safely ignored.
-- Ben (ben@fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/)
'a smiley only costs 4 bytes'
| |