Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:16:40 +0200 | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > A single SOB tag usually means that the committer himself is the author of > the change set and I don't see why this should be regarded as a bad thing in > principle. Yes, it is technically possible for maintainers to "cheat", for > example by making unreviewed changes and pushing them upstream with their > own SOBs even without any linux-next testing, but they can do damage in some > other ways too if they are irresponsible. > > We generally don't record information about what mailing lists the given patch > was submitted and how much time the maintainer waited for comments before > applying that patch. I suppose we possibly could record it, but then I'm not > sure how useful that will be in general. It definitely would mean more work > for maintainers and it's not like they don't have enough of that already. > Moreover, perhaps we can simply expect maintainers not to abuse the process? > > I guess my point is that the fact that there are commits with one SOB tag only > doesn't have to mean that we have a problem of any sort and it even doesn't > have to indicate the existence of such a problem. > > Commits that have never been in linux-next are much more problematic in my > opinion.
And we still have (too many of) them...
Once in a while, I do find suspicious commits that (a) weren't in -next, (b) weren't in my email archive (not unreasonable, as I'm not subscribed to all Linux mailing lists ;-), (c) are not to be found by Google, which means they may not have been posted for public review at all (are there Linux mailing lists that do not have a web archive?).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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