From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 179DB722 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 15:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5CE613F2 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 15:54:42 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:54:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: James Bottomley In-Reply-To: <1507303665.3104.13.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Message-ID: References: <20171005192002.hxbjjdjhrfa4oa37@thunk.org> <1507303665.3104.13.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Maintainer's Summit Agenda Planning List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, James Bottomley wrote: > 2) Trivial patches (again). OpenStack has recently started to become > annoyed by these  > > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-September/thread.html#122472 > > I thought about our process around the trivial tree, but it hasn't been > updated in the last few releases, so effectively we no longer use it. This has been caused solely by me being buried in other things, and there was always something else that overrode trivial tree in priority. >  So is what we're currently doing (variable standards by tree) OK, or > should we have a more concerted trivial policy? My original plan was to revive trivial tree for 4.15, as there are quite a few patches in the queue (that still apply). But if it's generally considered annoying (although I am pretty sure we don't suffer from what's in the openstack thread), I don't object and can ditch it completely. The thing is that such patches will keep coming anyway, and I think they have the value (although the priority is really lower than other changes of course). I still believe that having greppable comments, for example, is nice to have. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs