Re: [PATCH v5 00/16] Allwinner A100 Initial support

[Lee Jones]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, Maxime Ripard wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 09:03:27AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Frank Lee wrote:
> > 
> > > ping......
> > 
> > "Please don't send content free pings and please allow a reasonable
> >  time for review.  People get busy, go on holiday, attend conferences
> >  and so on so unless there is some reason for urgency (like critical
> >  bug fixes) please allow at least a couple of weeks for review.  If
> >  there have been review comments then people may be waiting for those
> >  to be addressed.  Sending content free pings just adds to the mail
> >  volume (if they are seen at all) and if something has gone wrong
> >  you'll have to resend the patches anyway so [RESEND]ing with any
> >  comments addressed is generally a much better approach."
> 
> This is true to some extent, but pinging after a month doesn't seem
> unreasonable either.

Pinging is mostly a fruitless exercise.

After a month, many Maintainers would have purged any un-serviced
mails anyway.  If a patch-set is left hanging, still requiring
attention before the next version, submitting a [RESEND] is generally
a better option.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services
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