Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:43:06 -0800 From: Richard Neese <r.neese@gmail.com> To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Cc: linimon@lonesome.com, stable@freebsd.org, mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PR backlog Message-ID: <200712261243.08351.r.neese@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071226.114224.-432836428.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20071226.003547.-932932005.imp@bsdimp.com> <20071226180415.GA27409@soaustin.net> <20071226.114224.-432836428.imp@bsdimp.com>
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I agree with this and there is also the 2nd issue of commiters not responding to those working on updating ports. Point and Fax I have emaile Sobomax about fixing and updating the asterisk ports. and have sent patches but never got a reply in 9 months. If your going to be a maintainer you need to respond to those working on projects already in ports. On December 26, 2007 10:42:24 am M. Warner Losh wrote: > Mark and Henrik make a number of good points here. Rather than reply > to the details, I'm going to make a couple of quick observations. > > As a project we're not leveraging the community sufficiently when it > comes to contributions. The current system of patch review and > submission is very hap-hazard. If you happen to get the attention of > the right person at the right time, then it goes in. If not, patches > can languish a long time in the PR system. > > The PR system is also the wrong tool for the job. While Mark touches > on the cultural issues in play, they are exacerbated by the > misapplication of a problem system to be a patch submission and > tracking system. Maybe we need to adopt a practice from the Linux > community. At least for arm kernel patches, there is a two step > process: submit it to a mailing list for review and refinement, with > the second step being submitting it into a queue. I'm not sure the > details we need to be successful in the FreeBSD project. > > Many of the USB patches in the PR system I left alone because I didn't > have the time and/or knowledge to evaluate them for inclusion, or I > saw something obviously wrong in the patch. When I was trying to just > get through the obviously trivial patches. > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Welcome to the World. An the World gets smaller.
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