On 16/5/18 12:30 am, Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/14/2018 02:00 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> On 13/3/18 6:44 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> Alexey Kardashevskiy, on mar. 13 mars 2018 15:49:44 +1100, wrote: >>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru> >>> >>> Applied to my tree, thanks! >> >> >> And what is your tree, is this something to be merged sometime later >> somewhere? :) > > Per MAINTAINERS: > > SLIRP > M: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org> > M: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> > S: Maintained > F: slirp/ > F: net/slirp.c > F: include/net/slirp.h > T: git git://git.kiszka.org/qemu.git queues/slirp > > which shows Jan's staging tree, but not Samuel's. > > It's not a requirement for a maintainer to have a public-facing staging > tree, but many of them do, as it gives you a chance to test that what will > later be in a pull request matches what you expect. > > At any rate, > https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#Is_my_patch_in.3F mentions > that maintainers will batch together various related patches and send a > pull request for inclusion in the main repository, thus even when a patch > has been reviewed and staged, it may be another week or two before it lands > in mainline. Yes, it can feel slow, but in general it works out for the > best (as we have more chances to flag potential problems before they affect > everyone by being in mainline).
If it was 2 weeks or even 6 - I would not bother but when it is 2 months, chances are it is forgotten/lost somewhere, hence my ping. I am not complaining at all, just pinging :) -- Alexey
