> But when no-one find time to sign-off a patch, it results in patches
> being lost in limbo. And when someone suddenly takes care, unfortunately,
> the patch does not apply anymore, so the patch writer has to rebase,...
Yes, and that's why we should all be maintaining our own git branches
for any
Paul,
I agree that having 140 patches needing signoff is way too many; I'd like to
see all them signed off and ready for QA. Lots of good stuff out there, and
if it's not being integrated, we're losing out.
However, the workflow is a good one from a quality assurance point of view.
Someone writ
Le 11/05/2011 16:22, Chris Cormack a écrit :
> On 12 May 2011 00:19, Marcel de Rooy wrote:
>> Liked that article!
>> As relative new member of the community, I am wondering if the current
>> signoff/passed_qa procedure really encourages new members to keep sending
>> patches.
>> It could happen
On 12 May 2011 00:19, Marcel de Rooy wrote:
> Liked that article!
> As relative new member of the community, I am wondering if the current
> signoff/passed_qa procedure really encourages new members to keep sending
> patches.
> It could happen easily now that a patch does not get any attention.
> Graph analysis showed very clearly that every time we would freeze, the
> community would shrink drastically and it would take several months after we
> un-froze for the size of the community to recover
Sure, because fixing bugs is very unsexy.
It's great to get all the feature contributions be
I too enjoyed this article and took note of this and saw during the IRC
meeting a comment about after a release how the community drops off.
"In the past, before a major release, we would “freeze” the trunk. This
meant that no new features could be developed for several weeks or months
until we fe
Liked that article!
As relative new member of the community, I am wondering if the current
signoff/passed_qa procedure really encourages new members to keep sending
patches.
It could happen easily now that a patch does not get any attention. What makes
someone now select a patch for signoff? C
