From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B90D7ABA for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 04:59:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0088.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.88]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D497C for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 04:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by smtpgrave04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF9CB1049 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 01:20:48 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:20:43 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Sudip Mukherjee Message-ID: <20150715212043.775be5d2@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20150711055441.GA6316@sudip-PC> References: <201507080121.41463.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> <559C73DF.2030008@roeck-us.net> <20150708114011.3a1f1861@noble> <2879113.fraeuJIr2M@avalon> <20150709193718.GD9169@vmdeb7> <20150710143641.GW4341@mwanda> <20150710160714.GL111846@vmdeb7> <20150710222351.GA28632@kroah.com> <20150711000034.GU111846@vmdeb7> <20150711001348.GA30675@kroah.com> <20150711055441.GA6316@sudip-PC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Dan Carpenter , Jason Cooper Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 11:24:41 +0530 Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > Another problem, when a newbie tries to move out of staging to some other > subsystem he likes, the maintainer may not be that much responsive. Just > for example, i submitted a patch on November, 2014 and I am yet to receive > a reply or review to that and the patch was not a style correction patch. BTW, it should always be OK to ping the maintainer if they ignore a patch. I believe one week is a good time to wait. And again in another week if they still do not reply. I know a few maintainers that think if they get to a patch that is old and the author never pinged them, they think the author doesn't think that patch is too important and they just delete it. I know I've been bad when patches are sent to me, especially if I'm traveling and I don't have access to a real computer (read the patch on my phone). I'll mark it with 'todo' and go on. By the time I get home, I have 10 or 20 emails marked 'todo' and I could spend days on a few of them before continuing. Finally, they just get buried, and lost in the abyss of my INBOX. I never delete them, and after my inbox gets too big, I'll actually try to purge it from oldest to newest, and I have replied to patches that were over a year old, and even applied them! I tell everyone, that if they do not hear from me within a week, please send me a 'ping'. It will put that patch higher in the 'todo' stack. I'm sure all maintainers are fine with a friendly ping after a week. Don't send a ping before then, because maintainers are busy, and may get annoyed by being too pushy. -- Steve