On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:12:34PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:14:34AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > That's simply not true. The amount of patches submitted is extremly > > huge and the reviewers don't have time to look at everythning. > > > > If no one replies it simply means no one has looked at it in enough > > detail to comment yet. > > How do people get to know this? Grape vines and crystal balls are > inherently unreliable.
If someone had looked and considered it good he'd have replied and said that. Simple ACK/NACK scheme - if neither returns consider it lost. > So, if the community has a problem with enough time to review patches, > the community must get more (good) patch reviewers. We can't go around > blaming the patch submitters for a community failing. Absolutely. I think the major problem is that no one pays people for doing reviews so this is purely a spare-time job. And that spare time is limited due to real life issues for most people. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/