From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A85DA2F9B for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:07:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1259D613DC; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:07:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1619100453; bh=V82kcpwjcppmFBzqg+sUKmcJbxeHRTQogS/YIai8SKQ=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=gDszl/zEGwPByFFelperIYIh1YFjpIQLojWHQyYLV4PuypLdhKUij0DwVBuiutkwi ImpbSPx5mVD+L3pnIIeysE6odaJS49whxyPcHFGM43FsFLUhI61gkjOJNzYhHb3cz0 tyZQN9gP2HshLdYtxUxnp+xBzvo//5wa2a/pu5OgqCdJfuCy64kzuaCtFdHwFTPxco zneQjjZw2RIMv2553VpT2IxoyB5dtZJNO8m7nDgpOpNlwN7fr1vLp0dUDHIjKnBLJY De+SkFBZIlUA8SVjUIvRpRwHtZt4RoUC//7NeNWE6DKyJrluDCyYvo18QxX10j1iqU /Qgd2GrCpHArA== Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:07:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Steven Rostedt cc: Sudip Mukherjee , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , James Bottomley , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Rethinking the acceptance policy for "trivial" patches In-Reply-To: <20210422100021.1a3f143c@gandalf.local.home> Message-ID: References: <20210422123559.1dc647fb@coco.lan> <20210422100021.1a3f143c@gandalf.local.home> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LSU 202 2017-01-01) X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 22 Apr 2021, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > May I suggest that we have a separate tree for trivial patches like > > the trivial.git tree that Jiri has and all trivial patches goes > > Funny that you suggest something that we already have and you mention. Yes > Jiri had the trivial tree, but because it ends up being a lot of work, and > if the maintainer of that tree doesn't have the time to maintain it, it > becomes a dead end for those patches. > > It requires someone with a good enough reputation to maintain it, and that > means most people who have that reputation do not have the time to maintain > it ;-) Yeah, amen to that :) That tree still sort of exists, I am collecting the patches that are sent there every now and then in big batches, and those which are still relevant by then I send to Linus afterwards. The problem with that aproach of course is that it implicitly assumes trivial -> non-urgent which is a dubious asumption to take. But so far, it has actually worked reasonably well in that mode of operation, because the trivial && urgent ones are picked up by maintainers normally anyway by their own interest (and usually people are reasonable enough to send the urgent ones the proper route anyway). -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs