Totally under stand :). Hopefully come summer I will be able to get my hands on a board and start contributing :)
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Nicolas Dechesne < nicolas.deche...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Jonathan Aquilina > <eagles051...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Doesnt email run the risk of a patch slipping through the cracks? > > as highlighted by Deepak above, each project will use the > processes/methods inherited from its 'upstream'. That's why gerrit is > being used for Android activities for example. many successful open > source projects are using solely email for patch submission and > review, and that happens to work fine. yes, that makes lots of emails, > and patches can be lost, but the general rule is that it's up to the > patch author to follow-up and potentially resubmit when such things > happen. for example, the Linux kernel documentation says this: > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=refs/tags/v3.9-rc7#n262 > > nicolas > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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