From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mlk8m-0001Tt-BD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:56:48 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mlk8g-0001Sm-S4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:56:46 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36801 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mlk8e-0001ST-Of for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:56:42 -0400 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.148]:61159) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mlk8e-0005cT-7o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:56:40 -0400 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so38035qwc.4 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AA90592.7080100@codemonkey.ws> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:56:34 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RESEND2] Qemu unmaintained? References: <20090902074905.GB25711@chrom.inf.tu-dresden.de> <20090909121817.GA21997@chrom.inf.tu-dresden.de> <4AA7A6EC.10907@codemonkey.ws> <20090910070336.GD3351@amit-x200.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090910070336.GD3351@amit-x200.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Amit Shah Cc: Bernhard Kauer , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Amit Shah wrote: > On (Wed) Sep 09 2009 [08:00:28], Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Bernhard Kauer wrote: >> >>> Its wednesday again, time to resend a patch to the list. >>> Until today the following happened in this endless story: >>> >>> >> Really, the whining just makes me want to drop your patch.. >> > > Let's be courteous and not drive away contributors. > > There's no relation between accepting patches and some nudging on the > contributor's part especially when there's no feedback on patches; > positive or negative. > > If there'd be a daemon sending a mail saying the patch is in some > staging queue it'll reduce everyone's effort. Such extra mails > definitely aren't a problem. If it's later reverted because of any kind > of failure, again a polite mail wouldn't hurt. > The problem is patch volume. We often see hundreds of patches a day. If typing a mail for each patch takes 2 minutes, that's potentially hours spent just on sending these mails. What I really need is some way to automatically generate these notifications. It's pretty easy to send a mail when a patch enters the queue but it's more difficult to send a mail when a patch is removed from the queue via a rebase. Often times, I remove patches from the queue simply because I'm not the right path for the patches to be committed from (like linux-user). Usually, if I remove a patch from the queue because something is wrong with it, I send out an email explaining what is wrong. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Amit >