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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] Encouraging more reviewers
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On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 16:31 -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote:
> 
> > That's the real issue. And this needs to be fixed first.
> > 
> > I really started to put breaks into this cycle of hell, where I get
> > spammed with a 30+ patch series in the morning and after I spent some
> > quality time looking at it and replying to a particular patch, I get
> > another spam bomb within a few hours, which is not much better than
> > the previous one.
> 
> That's definitely a good workflow question.  We tell people to break
> huge patches down into pieces, and that can turn substantial changes
> into long patch series.

Sometimes it isn't possible, or desirable, to break up large patch sets,
but for the most part that isn't the case.  The next step would be to
have all of the patches within a patch set be related.

Mimi