On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:13 PM Elliott Mitchell <ehem+open...@m5p.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 01:55:07AM +0100, Robert Marko wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 01:36, Elliott Mitchell <ehem+open...@m5p.com> wrote: > > > > > > Well, what purpose does the openwrt-devel mailing list serve? > > > > > > As near as I can tell it looks suspiciously like it is a method to divert > > > developers from where everything is done. There isn't too much review > > > activity. Anything which does get a positive review tends to simply > > > disappear unless it is later resubmitted via GitHub. > > > > > > According to https://openwrt.org/submitting-patches patch submission via > > > GitHub or the openwrt-devel mailing list can be done. The amount of text > > > seems to suggest the mailing list is preferred. Yet, can anyone cite a > > > single patch which was sent to the mailing list, reviewed positively and > > > brought into the main branch without resubmitting via GitHub?
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/list/?state=3&archive=both¶m=2&page=1 > > > Both methods of submitting changes are accepted. > > I must challenge this. If patches via the mailing list were accepted, > then we should see things sent to the mailing list getting into the > repository. Yet many patches get no attention. Some get reviews from > various people, yet then never get into the main repository. There are a lot of GitHub pull requests that nobody feels like merging, too. Patches are piling up at both places and I don't think this is a mailing-list specific problem. -- Regards, Chuanhong Guo _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
