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 CF138415 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io0-f196.google.com (mail-io0-f196.google.com [209.85.223.196]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79710188 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io0-f196.google.com with SMTP id k87so56368011ioi.0 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:39:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: <20188905.kHbMkj7sB6@avalon> <1834084.5qZ8rLimvk@avalon> <1492631703.3217.30.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <3f55980c-1e8d-c841-2555-472ed10eb2fc@sandisk.com> <20170425165632.5qvc62j2ex3h6rgg@sirena.org.uk> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:39:05 +0200 Message-ID: To: Bart Van Assche Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: , On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:47 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 04/25/17 09:56, Mark Brown wrote: >> 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? > > Hello Mark, > > If priorities change over time and someone who had initially sufficient > time to be a kernel maintainer and later on that changes that's > something I can understand. But what I do not understand is if someone > no longer has enough time to be a kernel maintainer why he or she does > not look for help and e.g. asks someone who has the required skills and > who is interested in this kind of work to become a co-maintainer? He/she may not have enough time for/other priorities than looking for a skilled replacement? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds