From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2159 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2002 03:18:49 -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 2148 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2002 03:18:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pizda.ninka.net) (216.101.162.242) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Apr 2002 03:18:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (IDENT:davem@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pizda.ninka.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA18931; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:09:57 -0700 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:18:00 -0000 Message-Id: <20020420.200957.17345631.davem@redhat.com> To: ac131313@cygnus.com Cc: msnyder@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Sparc/Linux fixes part 1 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <3CC22CA4.9060300@cygnus.com> References: <20020419.194417.101826241.davem@redhat.com> <20020420.185217.124826922.davem@redhat.com> <3CC22CA4.9060300@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00708.txt.bz2 From: Andrew Cagney Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:06:12 -0400 Please also appreciate that GDB runs on international time and most everyone on this list has a day job. Your changes will be reviewed but perhaphs not in the timeframe you seem to expect. My expectation is set based upon how the patches of others are treated. I produced a backlog of 12 patches, then Jason Thorpe posted his patch. You choose to review his change before any of the rest of mine. This is not the first time I've seen this kind of thing happen. And it isn't because foo's patch is simpler than bar's patch, so don't go down that road. And honeslty, I find it erroneous to take out on me the fact that the GDB maintainers don't have the time necessary to do their job. I am offering my time and assistance, as a mechanism to take some of the load off of your shoulders. My objective is to make is so that you need to spend less time on GDB issues, so that when a Sparc specific bug is fielded, you can push it to me instead of looking at it yourself. By complaining that you don't have any time, you create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because if you don't review submissions by "up and coming" people in a timely manner, they get discouraged and go away instead of eventually becomming "trusted" GDB developers who can take the load off of your shoulders. And again, you had time to look at Jason's patch from today and decided to preempt looking at any of my backlog from the previous day. So my offer still stands, either make me sparc maintainer or assure me that reviews will be performed in a timely manner.