On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:02:12AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:

> I noticed myself is that for some subsystems I contribute to (e.g.
> block, SCSI and RDMA) maintainers provide feedback about patches within
> a very reasonable time. For two other subsystems I contribute to it can
> take weeks or months before adequate feedback is provided. Sorry but I
> don't think that it is acceptable that it takes that long before
> feedback is provided and hence that this is a topic that deserves to be
> discussed during the maintainer summit.

This comes up most years...  is a discussion likely to come up with
anything new that's concretely actionable?

That said a related thing that feels like it's definitely a maintainer
summit thing is getting new things into the kernel that somehow sit
between maintainers (new subsystems being the most obvious example) - we
do have a gap where people will negatively review things but won't
either take them or positively review them which can go on for very long
periods with people being just ignored (or worse just getting new people
popping up every once in a while with negative comments).  That's
obviously offputting for submitters, and can be especially bad if it's
coupled with other stuff like people taking on board the derogatory
comments that often get made about some segments of the industry.