On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 12.03.2012 18:34, schrieb Stefano Stabellini:
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >> On 03/12/2012 12:06 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> I don't mean to steer any controversy or start any flame wars here, but
> >>> rather I want to point out a problem in the QEMU Community that is
> >>> preventing us and other people from having a good experience working
> >>> upstream with QEMU. Call it constructive criticism.
> >>>
> >>> Patches are being posted to the list that don't get any reviews at all.
> >>> Other patches get reviewed the first time, then once they are reposted
> >>> they don't get any other reviews or acked-by or reviewed-by.
> >>
> >> In all fairness, QEMU continues to grow year-to-year both in terms of
> >> total
> >> commits and number of contributors.
> >>
> >> The area that we struggle with is infrequent contributors that contribute
> >> non-trivial things and are write-only contributors.
> >>
> >> In this case, I really think the problem is expecting to be a write-only
> >> contributor. Part of participating in a community is not only pushing
> >> your own
> >> patches for acceptance but also reviewing other people's patches and
> >> participating in the discussion. If everyone only sends patches and
> >> doesn't
> >> review patches, then we'll never make progress.
> >>
> >> So I'd strongly suggest trying to spend some time reviewing other people's
> >> work.
> >> Right now, there are at least four different efforts around migration
> >> yet I
> >> don't see any of the people reviewing the other efforts. I think this is
> >> really
> >> the main problem.
> >
> > Point taken.
> > However maintainers should also be responsible of reviewing patches of
> > "infrequent write-only contributors".
>
> Yes, but maintainers are overloaded because they also need to review
> patches of frequent write-only contributors.
That's why we need more maintainers!
Otherwise QEMU from an Open Source project becomes a Secret Circle project.
