From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id k6L59eDW021005 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:09:51 -0700 Received: from wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com (wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.55.135]) by larry.melbourne.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA18774 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:09:06 +1000 Received: from wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id k6L594gw2000622 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:09:04 +1000 (EST) Received: (from nathans@localhost) by wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id k6L592Cx2001537 for xfs@oss.sgi.com; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:09:02 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:09:02 +1000 From: Nathan Scott Subject: Patches and reviews Message-ID: <20060721150902.C1998769@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Hi all, We have an internal process here (@sgi) where all changes are reviewed by someone else in the team before we merge them into our local tree. This is good and effective, but it obviously isn't visible to people outside SGI. Christoph has suggested we try to change this, so we plan to start sending out patches here before they are merged into our local tree, in the hope that others outside SGI will also take some time and cast a critical eye over changes before they go in. So, this is just a heads up that there will now be occasional mail coming to the list with "review: ..." in the Subject line and you're encouraged to try spot the bugs I'll "purposefully" inject from time to time, just to check you're awake. ;-) A response like "Beaauutiful code, Tim" is also helpful (recall that our internal process requires an ACK). I also now plan to start CC'ing the list on the mails I send to Linus and Andrew, requesting our XFS updates be merged into the mainline kernel. Hopefully this will also increase visibility everyone has as to what's going on in XFS with each new kernel. If you have other suggestions, particularly of things that are not going to increase my current workload at all, I'm all ears. cheers. -- Nathan