Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Suggest a longer expected time for responses

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Oct 03 2023 - 11:33:41 EST


Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> While some subsystems do typically have very fast turnaround times on
> review this is far from standard over the kernel and is likely to set
> unrealistic expectations for submitters. Tell submitters to expect 2-3
> weeks instead, this will cover more of the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

I was hoping to see some more comments on this; it is a fairly
significant change in the expectations we put on our reviewers. Oh
well, I've applied it. I wonder if we should add a note saying to look
at the maintainer profile for the subsystem in question for more
specific guidance? Of course, it would be good to have more of those...

Thanks,

jon