linux-kernel - Re: Maintainer abuse

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Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:15:35 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Maintainer abuse

On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> Is it the year for a Google summer of code project or similar to turn
> patchwork into a proper patch management tool (one that collects the
> patches, provides a good maintainer interface, tells people automatically
> that their patches are queued, deletes repeats, gives them status urls
> they can give to managers or check, and also has the right bits
> maintainer side to actually do stuff like send out "your patch set no
> longer merges, please update" emails, and tell the maintainer if it
> merges, the coding style important bits, etc and with buttons for "merge
> me"

If that works with command line tools which nicely integrate into
e-mail, that might be something useful. If it involves browser clicky
interfaces, then at least for me not so much.
 
> It could then be integrated into git (if only so we can have a "git lost"
> command to block annoying sources)
> 
> 2. Is X86 moving at a rate which needs some additional maintainers to
> "maintain" the pending queue during merge windows and the like, and get
> stuff into order for the maintainers proper ?

It usually works quite well. Just getting large patchsets sent in the
merge window or just right before it is a pain.

Thanks,

	tglx
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