linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add penalty for forcing a maintainer to edit a patch

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Message-ID: <510C3D65.6010200@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:10:45 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@...il.com>
CC:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add penalty for forcing a maintainer
 to edit a patch

On 02/01/13 13:07, Anca Emanuel wrote:
> Joe, read lkml and decide after that.
> I fully apove the pathch.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@...il.com>
> 
> Review-requested-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> 
> 
> Comments:
> You have 3 kernels to maintain as stable, plus drivers, plus etc.
> If somebody post something without reading the docs, and you have to
> repeat to them the same, again and more, then you MUST give an beer.

If someone is a repeat-repeat offender, they should just learn
how to submit patches correctly.  I.e., the maintainer should just
keep saying to them, Sorry, please submit your patch correctly
so that I can apply it.


> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 16:43 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>>>
>>> Maintainers have to hand-edit patches (body of patches and changelog
>>> entries) all the time.  There needs to be some kind of penalty put into
>>> place to keep developers from abusing maintainers.
>>
>> No, there doesn't.
>>
>> It's funny as a joke, it's not as an actual patch.


-- 
~Randy
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