Re: [RFA] Sparc/Linux fixes part 1

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

David S. Miller writes:
 > 
 > On another topic, I have like 10 or so RFAs pending, and nobody
 > provides any feedback.  Yet someone else submits a patch after all of
 > mine and it gets an RFA quite quickly.  It's not like I'm submitting
 > jumbo patches or anything, what gives?
 > 
 > I want to maintain and fix up the Sparc port, but I cannot do that
 > with multi-day lead times on patch review for even the most simple of
 > changes.  If nobody has the time to review my changes, then lets vote
 > on letting me be the Sparc maintainer because I do have the time to
 > keep it in good shape.
 > 
 > If the answer is "we don't have the time, and no you can't become the
 > Sparc maintainer", how the heck is someone supposed to become a
 > significant contributor to GDB? :(
 > 
 > I want to work on new bugs, failures in the testsuite, but I really
 > ought not to do that until my existing work is sorted out.


David, sorry, but I think your expectations are a bit unreasonable.
Michael Snyder, who is the Sparc host maintainer, replied to your
patches up to 7PM Friday night his time (2AM GMT). I assume after that
he had something else to do for the duration of the weekend.

You first complained that your patches had not been reviewed just 4 
hours after you submitted them. 

While everybody appreciates you fixing the sparc, it is going to take
a bit of time to get your patches reviewed. Please don't think we are
ignoring you. Everybody on this list is doing their best to maintain a
cooperative environment, and so far we have been fairly successful in
this regard.

To facilitate the review process, could I suggest you post a list of
pointers to your pending patches? I have seen a few of them being
checked in, reverted, etc, and it's getting a bit confusing.
Have any of the patches been withdrawn?


Thank you for your understanding.

Elena