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 ESMTP id A34F7988 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 11:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f170.google.com (mail-ie0-f170.google.com [209.85.223.170]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A33D51FA28 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 11:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f170.google.com with SMTP id to1so355203ieb.29 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 04:30:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1401428346.2163.43.camel@dabdike> References: <1400925225.6956.25.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20140529182753.GJ25041@thunk.org> <700704721.GMn4j9GJx9@vostro.rjw.lan> <20140529233004.GB11741@kroah.com> <20140530050448.GB2505@kroah.com> <1401428346.2163.43.camel@dabdike> Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 13:30:46 +0200 Message-ID: From: Daniel Vetter To: James Bottomley Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Reforming Acked-by (was Re: [TOPIC] Encouraging more reviewers) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:39 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > What I see at the moment is that the number of patches exceeds the > number of reviewers quite substantially. By and large the reviewers > mostly get through the backlog between merge windows (but the process is > an exhausting one which will lead to reviewer burn out), but I can see a > time arriving soon when they can't and we start wrapping ourselves > around the axle because of too few reviewers. Since I merge > 1000 patches a year I seem to qualify according to Greg. Percentage of patches with r-b tag in drm/i915: roughly 70% And that percentage is climbing (because I'm a jerk about it) and the 30% isn't all me since I have a co-maintainer now. Overall kernel: roughly 15% Require review and it will happen. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch