On 01 Mar 2007 18:05:50 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Olivier Galibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:51:24PM -0800, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > If someone wants a patch committed they will ping it
> > a couple of times and if they lost interest because they now decide it
> > is not a good thing or they no longer care about it, it will just fall
> > down the way side.
>
> If it's a new contributor, you will just have lost him forever at that
> point. The barrier of entry is high enough with the copyright
> assignment issue, you don't want to raise it through disorganization.
One answer to that is to have patch advocates to help push patches in.
They would need some experience with the community, but would not need
deep technical knowledge. This would be a volunteer position, along
the lines of the bugmasters.
Another answer is to have Danny's patch queue do automatic pings. Of
course that would only work for patches which were added to the patch
queue.
Ian
It actually has code to be able to do this.
It can even guess who the relevant maintainers are based on regexp
matching of the listed maintenance area.
The reason it is turned off is because when i asked a few maintainers
privately whether it would be helpful, they said it would annoy the
hell out of them, and not be useful.
The first i expected, the second is why it is not on :)
It also has code to send summaries to the list of patches that are >30
days outstanding, along with their ML urls, and people who could
possibly review them, etc.
I turned it for a week or two, but again, after talking with people,
nobody even noticed it :)
--Dan
