Re: rfc: trivial patches and slow deaths?

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 20:36 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 08/20/2013 07:22:36 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I'm also saying that the trivial tree should
> > have some visibility about whether or not a
> > patch or series will be handled by the trivial
> > maintainer or not.
[]
> > Jiri has not responded to this point.
> He did. Twice.

Not really.

> > Silence about the status of patches that extends
> > for months is not good.
> 
> He has a public git tree.

Yes, I know.

> I've found that if a patch isn't in there, he hasn't picked
> it up yet.

It's the visibility of if/yet/when for the trivial
patches submitted and unresponded to that's the question.

And no, Jiri hasn't responded with any intention of
making any such scheme public.

I think a public patchwork queue like netdev's could
work reasonably well.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/


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