[Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] Guidance for subsystem maintainers
Jiri Kosina
jkosina at suse.cz
Tue May 13 14:31:49 UTC 2014
On Tue, 13 May 2014, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> While posting to different subsystem areas, I noticed various ways of
> responses and communications. Some picks up quick, some urges more
> reviews, sometimes a patch gets merged silently after months later,
> etc. Although the variety is one strength of OSS development, it made
> me also wonder whether we need some baseline guidance for subsystem
> maintenance in order to give a better appeal to casual developers.
>
> Is such a thing too much burden to maintainers? Or, is it just a
> bikeshedding?
I am afraid that any attempt to force any working style on maintainers is
pre-destined to fail.
As an example, there are folks who love patchwork and others wouldn't dare
to touch it with a 10m pole.
Even such a "core" thing as git is explicitly claimed optional by Linus.
Is there perhaps anything more concrete you had on mind?
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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