From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sipsolutions.net (s3.sipsolutions.net [144.76.43.62]) (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 6E82170 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:35:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by sipsolutions.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256) (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1lZbMt-00FEq4-9Y; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:35:51 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Rethinking the acceptance policy for "trivial" patches From: Johannes Berg To: James Bottomley , "Martin K. Petersen" , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: ksummit@lists.linux.dev Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:35:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <99289ff4cf7b1e59f82c330728c80dc7e63319a7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: <20210422123559.1dc647fb@coco.lan> <99289ff4cf7b1e59f82c330728c80dc7e63319a7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.4 (3.38.4-1.fc33) X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-malware-bazaar: not-scanned On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 08:28 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 08:32 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Another metric that may be worth capturing is how many Fixes: tags > > refer to patches authored by this submitter. > > Or perhaps invert it: no bug fix without a Fixes: tag. We do this internally on our driver (it also helps see if release branches need a certain fix or not), but even then you sometimes just have to give up and say "unknown". Which is still useful to an extent as long as the developer did the work and didn't just blindly say "unknown", though the maintainer(s) usually will see and challenge that. johannes