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 31C28B1F for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk (mezzanine.sirena.org.uk [106.187.55.193]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDA251AA for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:56:32 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Bart Van Assche Message-ID: <20170425165632.5qvc62j2ex3h6rgg@sirena.org.uk> References: <20188905.kHbMkj7sB6@avalon> <1834084.5qZ8rLimvk@avalon> <1492631703.3217.30.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <3f55980c-1e8d-c841-2555-472ed10eb2fc@sandisk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2d7mcofwawfbjfwh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3f55980c-1e8d-c841-2555-472ed10eb2fc@sandisk.com> Cc: ksummit , Dave Airlie , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ingo Molnar , James Bottomley , Doug Ledford , David Miller Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --2d7mcofwawfbjfwh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:02:12AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > I noticed myself is that for some subsystems I contribute to (e.g. > block, SCSI and RDMA) maintainers provide feedback about patches within > a very reasonable time. For two other subsystems I contribute to it can > take weeks or months before adequate feedback is provided. Sorry but I > don't think that it is acceptable that it takes that long before > feedback is provided and hence that this is a topic that deserves to be > discussed during the maintainer summit. This comes up most years... is a discussion likely to come up with anything new that's concretely actionable? That said a related thing that feels like it's definitely a maintainer summit thing is getting new things into the kernel that somehow sit between maintainers (new subsystems being the most obvious example) - we do have a gap where people will negatively review things but won't either take them or positively review them which can go on for very long periods with people being just ignored (or worse just getting new people popping up every once in a while with negative comments). That's obviously offputting for submitters, and can be especially bad if it's coupled with other stuff like people taking on board the derogatory comments that often get made about some segments of the industry. --2d7mcofwawfbjfwh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAlj/f78ACgkQJNaLcl1U h9AutAf/eYgPJNfz/iwZsuZX1xJQi19kqHL3NpyiDvKruCVxlabl/0rR1gFAuE0W 9UwZ5wozjuQeTc7wQ20B8xprP44en6UVoP2mIGf5R5d9gKotUPpSVM5cEbjCRNg2 5804kTaLP698ZUiPj1vClqgLqeKtOMCK/vl2iq0XY1SAHtmNGdR7SUhlGNgyqP7b Qj+HKQedYJUkR+FtD9l5mSDRlBDmsLkTAdIeNod33/GAPs1M3Ch9bOg2JlgJwDRR YZs/HNKoHKVWncvQLtbqV0EcxJw0JHE02B5RKLaFf995UnbT4cgTccyYsbfdlcux nsyQGQCTG45ub5p4wvmd07alUewutw== =n8Qd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2d7mcofwawfbjfwh--