linux-kernel - Re: GFS2: Pull Request

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Message-ID: <20190508155050.186a1ba4@lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 8 May 2019 15:50:50 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        cluster-devel <cluster-devel@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: GFS2: Pull Request

On Wed, 8 May 2019 14:05:35 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:58 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
> >
> > I think this certainly belongs in the maintainer manual, but probably not
> > in pull-requests.rst.  There are a lot of things about repository
> > management that seem to trip up even experienced maintainers; pre-pull
> > merges is just one of those.  I would love to see a proper guide on when
> > and how to do merges in general.  
> 
> We had another pull request issue today, about a situation that I
> definitely know you've written about in the past, because I linked to
> lwn in my email:
> 
>    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiKoePP_9CM0fn_Vv1bYom7iB5N=ULaLLz7yOST3K+k5g@mail.gmail.com/

Sigh, I never can escape my past sins...

> and while I suspect people don't actually read documentation
> (_particularly_ maintainers that have already been around for a long
> time but still do this), maybe that part could be in the same
> documentation?

Something derived from that would make sense, yes.  I'll see if I can't
pull something together, unless by some delightful miracle somebody beats
me to it.

jon