[Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] Encouraging more reviewers

[Mimi Zohar]

On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 17:47 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: 
> On 05/28/2014 05:39 PM, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 16:31 -0700, josh at joshtriplett.org wrote:
> >>
> >>> That's the real issue. And this needs to be fixed first.
> >>>
> >>> I really started to put breaks into this cycle of hell, where I get
> >>> spammed with a 30+ patch series in the morning and after I spent some
> >>> quality time looking at it and replying to a particular patch, I get
> >>> another spam bomb within a few hours, which is not much better than
> >>> the previous one.
> >>
> >> That's definitely a good workflow question.  We tell people to break
> >> huge patches down into pieces, and that can turn substantial changes
> >> into long patch series.
> > 
> > Sometimes it isn't possible, or desirable, to break up large patch sets,
> > but for the most part that isn't the case.  The next step would be to
> > have all of the patches within a patch set be related.
> 
> from Documentation/SubmittingPatches:
> 
> patch series (where a "patch 
> series" is an ordered sequence of multiple, related patches).
> 
> Not that anyone reads documentation.

Thanks, Randy, for the reminder.

Mimi