[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process

[Jason Cooper]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 01:36:35PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> 
> > > > - Developement process: Jon Corbet's article about our changelog raised
> > > >   one interesting question: How can we better track how single SOB
> > > >   patches are getting merged ? Should maintainers add their SOB when
> > > >   they pull from subsystems maintainers (If they can) ? This is
> > > >   something I care about from both my MFD and NFC maintainer
> > > >   perspectives as I both pull from MFD sub maintainers and am John
> > > >   Linville's NFC sub maintainer.
> > > 
> > > This is difficult ... I think that in some sense merging from subsystem 
> > > maintainer tree can be viewed as an "implicit" Signoff, although this 
> > > hasn't been formalized anywhere.
> > Right. And it's sometimes difficult to track where the patch is coming
> > from. Not mentioning the case where some of them ends up in -stable
> > where that information is then lost.
> 
> In some other thread here I was proposing to change stable workflow so 
> that maintainers will be sending pull requests of stable branches to Greg, 
> which would IMHO have several benefits, including this.

I mentioned this as well, with a common ancestor so you even get the
same commit id in both trees.

thx,

Jason.