Re: Unreviewed patches - is the boat sinking?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 13:54 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > > How do we solve this?
> >
> > Let's start with an actual set of metrics that is accurate.  If there
> > is an issue and certainly if you care about it, we have a team called
> > the bug squad who can look into it.  We solve these problems by
> > getting volunteers to help manage the bug queue and bug maintainers.
> > This problem is not unique and is in fact a problem in any Free
> > Software project.
>
> There's merit in his complaint. A lot of patches really do seem to be
> ignored. This is more of a problem for some components (typically the
> bigger ones) than for others.

I completely agree that there is merit to the complaint.  But it
should be based on a real metric not what was presented.  I just
objected to the subject which I felt was alarmist.

> Probably, module maintainers should receive email notifications of
> unreviewed patches.

Emmanuele has the right of it.  More mail doesn't help.  We have a bug
squad, we can do lots of thing with more volunteers.  Perhaps Joanna
would be willing to lend her expertise to the bug squad?

sri