On 13.03.2012, at 15:43, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/13/2012 09:39 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 03/13/2012 04:12 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>>>> (plus it puts an extra person in the loop which is pretty >>>>> much guaranteed to slow things down). >>>> >>>> Having the committers process all these patches (and monitor all >>>> patches) is guaranteed to slow things down too. >>> >>> They're in the loop anyway, because they have to process the pull >>> request just as they would a single patch. >> >> Anthony's shunting emails with [PULL] into a special queue, so yes >> they're in the loop, but it's a smaller one. > > Right, if we want urgency on something, there has to be a filterable keyword. > I don't read every single message on qemu-devel every hour of the day. > > The advantage of [PULL] over [urgent] is that it fits the existing workflows. > It's clear who should be doing [PULL] requests.
The only flaw in this is that Anthony doesn't pull from my trees, so having him notified doesn't help me ;). Alex