Re: [PATCH 0/9] xen: build fixes with gcc5 and binutils 2.25.0

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 17:48 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> What's up folks? How can this process be made smoother, did I do
> something wrong, what can I do to help better?

When you first sent this series to Jan + me not copying the list you were
asked to send to the list _and_ to CC the appropriate maintainers.

When you resent you only added the xen-devel CC without adjusting the CC.
Jan pointed this out to you (as a subsequent reply to the original private
thread) and so I archived both threads in anticipation of a corrected
series being resent in the not to distant future.

CCing maintainers is part of the Xen workflow just as it is with Linux, I
don't think you would expect to send a random selection of e.g. arch/x86
and drivers/net fixes to Linus+GregKH and have anything useful happen to
them.

If you were a newbie to this sort of thing I would probably have kept a
closer eye out for a v3 and given you some guidance if it didn't
materialise in a week or two but I didn't think it would be necessary in
your case since I know you are familiar with this sort of thing from the
Linux world and your previous contributions to Xen.

FWIW I would also suggest sending fixes to different components (qemu-xen,
qemu-xentraditional, xen.git, mini-os.git) as different series, lest
someone read patch #1 and assume the whole series is against that component
rather than something they maintain.

And BTW when we say to copy the maintainers we mean the person/people
responsible for the component in Xen, not the upstream maintainers, e.g.
Stefano for qemu-xen not Peter Maydell. The xen.git MAINTAINERS file lists
the right people.

Ian.

>  What can you do to help
> ensure these types of things don't fall through the cracks.
> 
> [0] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel/264183
> 
>   Luis

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