Diego Novillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Berlin wrote on 06/13/06 23:24: > > > Does anyone believe this would help make sure patches stop dropping > > through the cracks? > > > Not really. Technical solutions to social problems rarely work. Patch > review is mostly a social problem. I am frequently part of the problem, > unfortunately. Mostly this is a time constraint problem, there are only > so many hours in a working day.
You are of course correct in general. However, I believe there are specific cases in which generating reminder messages would help. The gcc-patches mailing list is a busy one. It's easy for people to miss a patch. It's also easy for people to assume that a patch to a particular area will be handled by a maintainer who tends to focus on that area. I think a reminder message that some patch is still outstanding could be helpful to catch these sorts of cases. Ian
