On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 6 January 2012 20:42, Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> wrote: >> On 01/06/2012 02:02 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> i) Unless it's a build fix, I propose defining a minimum review time >>> before a patch is applied to a (sub)maintainer's queue. > >> I disagree here. If anything, I think we wait a bit too long for people to >> review things and that prevents progress. > > Actually I think it would be useful to agree on a "standard" time > for this kind of thing. A lot of the ARM related patches I do don't > get review, and it would be nice to know how long it's sensible to wait > until I can submit them in a pull request. (I don't want to cut > short time for people to review, but I don't want them languishing > on the list for weeks either...)
I typically ping if there has been no activity for 1 week or more. Introducing a wait period of more than a few days is probably not going to add much review, perhaps the usual reviewers will just put off reviewing until closer to the deadline. Something like 2 days is reasonable though, IMO. Stefan