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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Maintainer abuse
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:46:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141213174652.GD29934@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141213135231.5684cf9d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 01:52:31PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:

...

> It could then be integrated into git (if only so we can have a "git lost"
> command to block annoying sources)

All sounds nice and good but I'd be fine with people adhering to the
one-week feedback gather rule and not sending patchsets during the merge
window, for starters. I think those two will get us pretty far.

> 2. Is X86 moving at a rate which needs some additional maintainers to
> "maintain" the pending queue during merge windows and the like, and get
> stuff into order for the maintainers proper ?

Yep, no patches during the merge window should be a good start.

The rest of the time x86 actually scales pretty fine IMO.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
--

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-13 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-12 23:24 Maintainer abuse Thomas Gleixner
2014-12-12 23:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-12-13 13:52   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-12-13 17:46     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-12-15 11:15     ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-12-16  2:47       ` Brian Norris
2014-12-18 10:14     ` patch tracking tools (was Re: Maintainer abuse) Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-18 13:25       ` Fam Zheng
2014-12-19 11:30         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-16  8:06 ` Maintainer abuse Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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