Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, August 01, 2013 12:16:40 PM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> 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?).

I wonder if it's feasible to publish a list of such commits once in a while?

It doesn't have to be complete, I guess.

Rafael

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