Make clear, when contributions will be ignored

Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Sun Feb 17 19:13:00 GMT 2019


On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 04:59:40PM +0000, Дилян Палаузов wrote:
> As a matter of fact patches are not reviewed for whatever reason in reasonable time.

Yes.  This is an age-old problem.

> My point is to reorgnize the approach in such a way, that sending reminders gets irrelevant (has no impact) and
> therefore not necessary.
> 
> Currently priority is given to submitters who send reminders, irrespective of the properties a patch has.

No, that is not true for many reviewers.  It is however true that patches
that are *not* pinged (say, once a week) often are forgotten, or the
maintainer assumes the patch is not wanted anymore, etc.


Segher



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