From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:06:57 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] vala: add vala/valac wrapper In-Reply-To: <56CBAA86.4070305@mind.be> References: <1454428908-7183-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <20160221222816.4e53e921@free-electrons.com> <56CA62D8.10309@zacarias.com.ar> <56CB9DFA.506@mind.be> <56CBA547.3020200@zacarias.com.ar> <56CBAA86.4070305@mind.be> Message-ID: <56CBB0B1.6020506@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 22/02/16 21:40, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: >> If you're implying i don't help in other aspects and i just care about what i >> send i suggest you take a look at lots of autobuilder fixes for packages i never >> use. > > That's why I mentioned that 92% of the patches you submitted have already been > applied. The other buildroot contributors really appreciate the work you do. And > share your frustration that too many patches tend to linger, and need to be > rebased all the time. In fact, Thomas and Peter have the additional frustration > that all of their time is taken up by applying other people's patches, leaving > no time to work on their own ideas. Oh come on, you're smarter than that: most of my merged patches are trivial. That's the consequence of let's call them "big series" lingering on forever - it really demotivates to work on anything groundbreaking since you've gotta rebase forever to keep them sane on top of other changes with nothing happening to it. How about relinquising some control? Add a new committer, maybe Yann, yourself or some other trusted volunteer, that way the new committer(s) can clean up the simple queue and leave the more contentious series for the more experienced ones. Maybe put on some simple ground rules like don't commit your own stuff and so on. They will make mistakes, sure, but then everybody does and both Peter & Thomas will get some free time for their particular interests. Otherwise we end up with these emails that make a lot of noise and then everything cools down and nothing changes, the scaling remains at the same sucklevel. It's not a life-forever thing, if it doesn't work then try some other thing, but if there's no trying for some new approach evidently nothing will change no matter how much you push for new blood, reviews, tested and acks. Regards.