From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Corbet Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 15:50:50 -0600 Subject: [Cluster-devel] GFS2: Pull Request In-Reply-To: References: <20190508145818.6a53dff5@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20190508155050.186a1ba4@lwn.net> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 8 May 2019 14:05:35 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:58 PM Jonathan Corbet 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 at mail.gmail.com/ 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