Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: Remove unused python imports

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 8 November 2018 at 18:08, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Anyway there are no information about merge window in the wiki.
>> When I started it was not easy to understand it and why patches sent when
>> 'merge window is close' fall under the crap and are unnoticed, thus it is
>> better to wait before to send, or resend them.
>
> The intention (not always something we succeed at) is that
> maintainers should respond to patches, do review, etc, at
> any point in our release cycle. During a release they might
> reply to say "I won't get to reviewing this for a little while"
> or "I'll take this patch once the trunk reopens for releases",

In both cases, the maintainer remains responsible for tracking the
patches.

I believe the sane thing to do is to review patches as usual, and to
queue the ones that are ready to go into the next release on a separate
branch.

> but they shouldn't just leave patch submitters with no response
> at all...

Yes, that's rude.

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