On 12 March 2012 20:12, Stefan Weil<address@hidden> wrote:
I agree that more maintainers would be good, but we also need
more people with commit rights. Why? There a many examples of
urgent patches (= patches which fix broken builds) which take
several days even when they were reviewed before they finally
are committed.
I agree that that's a specific area it would be nice to do
better in. It seems to me that the qemu-trivial process for
sweeping up trivial patches has been working well; maybe we
could use a slightly more formal qemu-urgent process for
flagging up build breakage etc?
(Personally I'd support a rule that any outstanding
build-breakage fixes must always go in before anything else.)
A good patchwork instance is really useful -- the Linaro one
is set up with hooks into monitoring git, so patches that are
committed move automatically to 'accepted', for instance.
[It's only semi-automatic, though, and I don't know if it
would still be as useful with the much higher volume qemu gets.]
-- PMM