Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD, In message <20090712152355.gh7...@game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote: > > > If none of the board maintatiners sends a NAK after a reasonable time > > (3...4 days or so, max 1 week), the we can assume that the patch is > > OK and should be applied. > you ask us multiple time when we touch a board config we do need the board > maintainer ack > I've 10's of patch that you have nack because I never receive the board > maintainer and they still wait to have board Maintainer ack.
You are right. It's difficult to write don rules that cover all cases - which is one reason why I try to avoid writing down them in the first place. To me it seems reasonable to ask for maintainer feedback when changes affect a small number of boards - in such a case there is danger, that problems might remain unnoticed if the maintainers are not aware of the patch (which might sail under a subject that does not trigger their awareness), as nobody else is affected. If a patch affects a large number of boards in exactly the same way, such explicit triggering is less needed - it is very likely that a few of these boards will be tested in any way, so any problems will be noticed even if no extra notification of board maintainers takes place. To trigger a maintainer it should be sufficient to send him an e-mail (i. e. put him on cc: on the posting). If he does not apply in a reasonable time, we assume his implicit ACK. Sorry that I cannot provide a strict rule with clear decision criteria; if in doubt, use common sense. Thanks. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
