Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [RFC PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS, Handbook: Subsystem Profile

From: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: vishal.l.verma@intel.com,
	ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>,
	"Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [RFC PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS, Handbook: Subsystem Profile
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:47:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad84cf38-279e-1e14-9635-23ad2efe584d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f6aece0-da64-78b5-0eda-fe039fc1ad09@gmail.com>

On 11/15/18 4:11 PM, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 11/14/18 8:53 PM, Dan Williams wrote:

< snip >

>> +
>> +
>> +Time Zone / Office Hours
>> +------------------------
>> +Let contributors know the time of day when one or more maintainers are
>> +usually actively monitoring the mailing list.
> 
> I would strike "actively monitoring the mailing list".  To me, it should
> be what are the hours of the day that the maintainer might happen to poll
> (or might receive an interrupt) from the appropriate communications
> channels (could be IRC, could be email, etc).
> 
> For my area, I would want to say something like: I tend to be active
> between 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC when daylight savings) and 25:00 (26:00),
> but often will check for urgent or brief items up until 07:00 (08:00).
> I interact with email via a poll model.  I interact with IRC via a
> pull model and often overlook IRC activity for multiple days).

  ^^^^ typo, that should be "poll", not "pull"

> 
> -Frank
> 

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