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Message-ID: <20100422201819.GC26924@suse.de> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:18:19 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: What's the staging review and acceptance process? On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:17:08AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:49:02 -0700 > Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> 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. > > > > While a series of unfortunate events did happen to cause this, do you > > have any evidence of this causing people to go away? > > Subjectively the answer is yes I think. More quantatively it was the case. > I did some measurements long ago with 2.4-ac and there was direct and > clear connection between two things and patch submission/activity levels. > One was 'cycle time' (ie time from submit->response->tree) - the other was > putting the name of the contributor in the per -ac patch summaries that > used to get mailed out. Yeah, I know I liked seeing my name there, that was very nice to have :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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