Re: [ANN] Media Summit September 16th: Final Agenda (v7)

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:13:07 +0300
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> escreveu:

> > > > See, the media-committers repository at fdo can be rebased. This might
> > > > happen, for instance, if we don't agree with some merge there during
> > > > our merge review or if other committers disagree with merges. On such
> > > > case, the not-accepted patches will be dropped via rebase and the patches
> > > > will need to be reviewed the normal way.    
> > > 
> > > Things that haven't reached a consensus should not be merged in the
> > > first place, and in the rare cases where it happens, a revert is fine.
> > > Rebases should be kept for situations where no other option is possible.  
> > 
> > I guess we agree to disagree.  
> 
> I certainly disagree, yes. I won't comment further, I think you know my
> position well enough, and I'm certain the majority of the community is
> also against rebases.

Nobody like rebases, including subsystem maintainers. A rebase means
lots of manual work that we would very much prefer not to do it.

You don't want rebases, fine. There shouldn't be any rebases if every
committer ensures that each patch they merged were properly 
reviewed/accepted and have the proper license and tags, including
SPDX, SoBs, A-B, R-B, etc.

Yet, if a committer screws up somehow (intentionally or not), subsystem 
maintainers will handle it the way they think it is the best, deciding 
either to rebases or revert, depending on the case.

Thanks,
Mauro