Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RESEND2] Qemu unmaintained?

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Wed) Sep 09 2009 [08:00:28], Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> Bernhard Kauer wrote:
>>     
>>> Its wednesday again, time to resend a patch to the list.
>>> Until today the following happened in this endless story:
>>>   
>>>       
>> Really, the whining just makes me want to drop your patch..
>>     
>
> Let's be courteous and not drive away contributors.
>
> There's no relation between accepting patches and some nudging on the
> contributor's part especially when there's no feedback on patches;
> positive or negative.
>
> If there'd be a daemon sending a mail saying the patch is in some
> staging queue it'll reduce everyone's effort. Such extra mails
> definitely aren't a problem. If it's later reverted because of any kind
> of failure, again a polite mail wouldn't hurt.
>   

The problem is patch volume.  We often see hundreds of patches a day.  
If typing a mail for each patch takes 2 minutes, that's potentially 
hours spent just on sending these mails.

What I really need is some way to automatically generate these 
notifications.  It's pretty easy to send a mail when a patch enters the 
queue but it's more difficult to send a mail when a patch is removed 
from the queue via a rebase.  Often times, I remove patches from the 
queue simply because I'm not the right path for the patches to be 
committed from (like linux-user).

Usually, if I remove a patch from the queue because something is wrong 
with it, I send out an email explaining what is wrong.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> 		Amit
>