Re: How long to wait on patches?

["Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:45:08 -0700 (PDT)
> David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I checked the FAQ but didn't see an answer to this.  Over the past
few weeks 
> > > I've submitted probably around 8 simple typo-fix patches all of
which seemed 
> > > to be approved by others on the list.  I've been following the
GIT, but these 
> > > patches haven't been merged yet.  I know people are busy with
other things, 
> > > probably more important, but I would like to know how long is
"acceptable" to 
> > > wait before I should re-submit a patch.  Obviously if enough time
passes, 
> > > patches start to break as source files change.  I don't mean to be
a nuisance; 
> > > I'm just trying to determine proper protocol.  That and the fact I
can submit 
> > > several more patches once I get some of these old ones out of my
queue. :)
> > 
> > be sure to watch the -mm tree as well, a lot of patches are picked
up by Andrew 
> > to be fed to Linus that way
> 
> Yes, I hoover up unloved patches from the mailing list.  But only from
this
> mailing list, and there are probably lots of potentially-useful patches on
> other lists which get lost.
> 
> However I have a personal i-dont-do-typo-patches policy.  Resending
them to
> kernel-janitor-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net would be a good idea.

Please make that kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org
The sf.net list/hosting is no longer used.

or just to trivial will also work.  Neither of them is especially
fast and should not be used for critical patches.

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~Randy