Re: GFS2: Pull Request

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Wed, 8 May 2019 14:05:35 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:58 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I think this certainly belongs in the maintainer manual, but probably not
> > in pull-requests.rst.  There are a lot of things about repository
> > management that seem to trip up even experienced maintainers; pre-pull
> > merges is just one of those.  I would love to see a proper guide on when
> > and how to do merges in general.  
> 
> We had another pull request issue today, about a situation that I
> definitely know you've written about in the past, because I linked to
> lwn in my email:
> 
>    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiKoePP_9CM0fn_Vv1bYom7iB5N=ULaLLz7yOST3K+k5g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Sigh, I never can escape my past sins...

> and while I suspect people don't actually read documentation
> (_particularly_ maintainers that have already been around for a long
> time but still do this), maybe that part could be in the same
> documentation?

Something derived from that would make sense, yes.  I'll see if I can't
pull something together, unless by some delightful miracle somebody beats
me to it.

jon