On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > It is true however that currently we are not encouraging outsiders to > contribute, because old timers work on mostly large patches (or large > sequences of patches) that reviewers know about. For the same reason, it is > easier for small patches to fall through the cracks than large ones.
And for all the other reasons I mentioned about patches from outsiders being liable to be harder to review. And when they are reviewed the contributor may lose interest and not go through all the steps needed to address issues from the review. So I don't think any tracking system should treat "needs changes from the submitter" as a state meaning "maintainers can ignore this indefinitely until a new submission"; patches in that state from new contributors could just as much do with human help from more experienced contributors to get the patches into shape (and I think such human help for badly formed contributions would be just as valuable in attracting new contributors as any technical solutions). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
