Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Maintainer burnout

Miguel Ojeda
2023-08-17T17:41:56Z

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 5:03 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 03:56:43PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>
> > I think the bot should simply reply commenting on the issues it has
> > found, without judging whether the patch should or should not be
> > reviewed (and the bot could perhaps explicitly say so to avoid
> > submitters getting discouraged).
> >
> > Then, depending on what the bot finds, i.e. the amount and kind of
> > issues, reviewers can decide and reply as needed. RFC patches could be
> > skipped by the bot.
>
> This defeats a little bit the point of lowering the workload of
> reviewers though, if they have to review each bot report and reply to it
> manually :-)

No, it does not. The point is that you don't need to point out trivial
mistakes anymore, nor devote time to find them.

Just by judging the length of the bot's reply and the importance of
the spotted issues, you can make an assessment.

And, of course, you can also group particular issues as "no-go", so
that the bot already says there needs to be most likely a new version
(e.g. no SoB, no license, no commit message, bad formatting, build
errors...), suited to the particular subsystem.

Cheers,
Miguel