linux-kernel - Re: What's the staging review and acceptance process?

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Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:55:18 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What's the staging review and acceptance process?

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:25:57PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 20:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > That caused the huge backlog staring at me right now.
> > Which likely discouraged the new contributors who
> > submitted stuff still in that backlog.
> do you have any evidence of this causing people to go away?

I think it's pretty established that response delays
cause losses of one type or another.

> > Unfortunately, your process has been opaque until you
> > personally handle it.
> Yes, like all subsystem maintainers, right?

Not really, patchwork shows status immediately.

> Are you volunteering?

Guess so.

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