Re: patch review time

[Kip Macy <kmacy at fsmware dot com>]

I think Bob may be trying to say that he'd like to be a maintainer ;-)



On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Bob Rossi wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:32:40AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> >
> > > BTW, 2 of the MI MAINTAINERS completely do *nothing*. They don't respond
> > > to Emails, they don't review patches, and as far as I can tell, do
> > > nothing behind the scene.
> >
> > > Shouldn't they be removed from this position, since, IMO, they are *not*
> > > maintaining the code. I think having 3 maintainers under the section
> >
> > >   mi (gdb/mi)             Andrew Cagney     cagney@redhat.com
> > >                           Elena Zannoni     ezannoni@redhat.com
> > >                           Fernando Nasser   fnasser@redhat.com
> >
> > > is misleading. Since Andrew is the *only* one I can tell is maintaining
> > > code for MI, even if it's not at the speed that I desire.
> >
> > Hang on. Let's be pragmatic. How will things get *better* if they are removed.
> > They are the original authors and know the code better than the rest of us.
> > We don't know what their committments/current interests are. At the moment,
> > they might contribute at some time in the future. If they are removed then
> > presumably they won't.
>
> Nothing is stopping them from contributing now or in the future. As far as I
> can tell, things will not get better with them in or not in the MAINTAINERS
> file. I don't even get responses from them when I send Emails.
>
> I guess I don't really care if they are noted as MAINTAINERS even if
> they don't maintain the code. I just want to make it clear that there is
> 1 active maintainer, not 3.
>
> > Bob, you're not the only one whose e-mails go ignored. Answering questions,
> > reviewing patches takes up time. Unpaid time. If my e-mail is unanswered, it
> > tells me something: either people aren't interested or they are too busy.
> > Sometimes I let it go, sometimes I realise it was a stupid question, and
> > sometimes I send another e-mail and try to add something to get a reply.
>
> I don't really care about the "unpaid" time business. My time goes
> unpaid as well, so I see it as a clean slate, we're all even here.
>
> Answering Emails and reviewing patches are some of the job's of a maintainer.
> My Emails and patches are ignored often, this tells me that there is no
> MAINTAINER that has time/interested in having another contributer improve
> upon the MI code base. This tells me that there is a lack of active maintainers
> in the area.
>
> I'm going to contribute a large amount to GDB/MI and get it done within a
> reasonable amount of time, or I'm not going to be able to. The point of
> this Email thread is to bring up the fact that I simply can not wait
> months and months to get what I need to get done, done.
>
> Bob Rossi
>