From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6662 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2002 16:24:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6633 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2002 16:24:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.83.203) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2002 16:24:33 -0000 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (romulus.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.251]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA00595; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 469) id 872CD11414; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:24:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Elena Zannoni MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15556.14631.337904.379066@localhost.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:24:00 -0000 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: msnyder@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Sparc/Linux fixes part 1 In-Reply-To: <20020420.185217.124826922.davem@redhat.com> References: <20020419.190949.100077712.davem@redhat.com> <3CC0D67F.5060504@cygnus.com> <20020419.194417.101826241.davem@redhat.com> <20020420.185217.124826922.davem@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00800.txt.bz2 David S. Miller writes: > > On another topic, I have like 10 or so RFAs pending, and nobody > provides any feedback. Yet someone else submits a patch after all of > mine and it gets an RFA quite quickly. It's not like I'm submitting > jumbo patches or anything, what gives? > > I want to maintain and fix up the Sparc port, but I cannot do that > with multi-day lead times on patch review for even the most simple of > changes. If nobody has the time to review my changes, then lets vote > on letting me be the Sparc maintainer because I do have the time to > keep it in good shape. > > If the answer is "we don't have the time, and no you can't become the > Sparc maintainer", how the heck is someone supposed to become a > significant contributor to GDB? :( > > I want to work on new bugs, failures in the testsuite, but I really > ought not to do that until my existing work is sorted out. David, sorry, but I think your expectations are a bit unreasonable. Michael Snyder, who is the Sparc host maintainer, replied to your patches up to 7PM Friday night his time (2AM GMT). I assume after that he had something else to do for the duration of the weekend. You first complained that your patches had not been reviewed just 4 hours after you submitted them. While everybody appreciates you fixing the sparc, it is going to take a bit of time to get your patches reviewed. Please don't think we are ignoring you. Everybody on this list is doing their best to maintain a cooperative environment, and so far we have been fairly successful in this regard. To facilitate the review process, could I suggest you post a list of pointers to your pending patches? I have seen a few of them being checked in, reverted, etc, and it's getting a bit confusing. Have any of the patches been withdrawn? Thank you for your understanding. Elena