Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!

[Alexander Graf]

On 13.03.2012, at 15:43, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> On 03/13/2012 09:39 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 03/13/2012 04:12 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>>> (plus it puts an extra person in the loop which is pretty
>>>>> much guaranteed to slow things down).
>>>> 
>>>> Having the committers process all these patches (and monitor all
>>>> patches) is guaranteed to slow things down too.
>>> 
>>> They're in the loop anyway, because they have to process the pull
>>> request just as they would a single patch.
>> 
>> Anthony's shunting emails with [PULL] into a special queue, so yes
>> they're in the loop, but it's a smaller one.
> 
> Right, if we want urgency on something, there has to be a filterable keyword. 
>  I don't read every single message on qemu-devel every hour of the day.
> 
> The advantage of [PULL] over [urgent] is that it fits the existing workflows. 
> It's clear who should be doing [PULL] requests.

The only flaw in this is that Anthony doesn't pull from my trees, so having him 
notified doesn't help me ;).


Alex