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McKenney" , Simon Glass , NeilBrown , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Theodore Ts'o" , Jonathan Corbet , Vlastimil Babka , workflows@vger.kernel.org, ksummit@lists.linux.dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 10:51=E2=80=AFAM wrote: > > Sasha Levin wrote: > [..] > > With a rule like the above, 1700+ contributors would have not been able= to send > > their patch in. > > Good point, I am not suggesting a Reviewed-by hurdle, but can see it > reading that way. I expect that there will always be a significant class > of contributions that will never need author trust to be accepted. Yes, > would need to be careful not to destroy that wellspring of new > contributors. You brought up an excellent point and I think it should be documented in submitting-patches.rst: A developer "should be able to demonstrate the ability to substantively review a contribution of similar complexity before expecting the kernel community to engage in earnest". In bpf and netdev communities we ask developers to participate in code reviews and publish metrics: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/?q=3Ds%3A%22bpf+development+stats%22 A bit gamified rankings, but the message is clear: want to land patches faster? participate in code reviews! It reduces maintainers load and demonstrates that code-reviewing developers actually understand the code, builds maintainer's trust.