[U-Boot] [STATUS] Help needed - urgently

Kumar Gala
2011-11-17T13:41:35Z

On Nov 17, 2011, at 6:40 AM, Stefano Babic wrote:

> On 11/16/2011 10:35 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> Dear Kumar Gala,
>>
>> In message <D75BA016-4E89-4CEA-ACEC-CC322FF58A1F@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Please let's try if this works. If you have any suggestions how to
>>>> help better, please don't hesitate to tell us.
>>>
>>> On suggestion I'd have is we improve our use of patchworks. Right now
>>> there is way too much 'stale' on patchworks so its difficult to extract
>>> what needs to be looked at from what might be owned by existing
>>> maintainers.
>>
>> As a first step this requires someone who is brave enought oclean up
>> the existing state, which is indeed a mess.
>
> Sure, but anyway to avoid conflicts I suggest that who takes care of a
> patch *firstly* sets his name as delegate into patchwork before doing
> something.

Agreed, my thinking was that for the non-maintained patches, the maintainer that pulls a patch in to their tree would mark themselves as the delegate of the patch.

- k