[Ksummit-discuss] Reforming Acked-by (was Re: [TOPIC] Encouraging more reviewers)

[Lukáš Czerner]

On Fri, 30 May 2014, Jan Kara wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 15:07:28 +0200
> From: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
> To: Lukáš Czerner <lczerner at redhat.com>
> Cc: Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>,
>     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at hansenpartnership.com>,
>     "ksummit-discuss at lists.linuxfoundation.org"
>     <ksummit-discuss at lists.linuxfoundation.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Reforming Acked-by (was Re: [TOPIC] Encouraging
>      more reviewers)
> 
> On Fri 30-05-14 12:08:12, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 May 2014, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 16:30:04 -0700
> > > From: Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>
> > > To: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
> > > Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at hansenpartnership.com>,
> > >     "ksummit-discuss at lists.linuxfoundation.org"
> > >     <ksummit-discuss at lists.linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Reforming Acked-by (was Re: [TOPIC] Encouraging
> > >      more reviewers)
> > > 
> > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 02:03:16PM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > > > What are we really trying to fix here? Is the current process really
> > > > broken or are we trying to create more process that's not needed for
> > > > some other reason?
> > > 
> > > I think the latter.
> > > 
> > > Somehow, we seem to be constantly increasing our rate of change, are
> > > people thinking we are having problems here?  If so, exactly where?
> > > This thread has taken an odd turn into trying to make some new kind of
> > > process for an unknown issue (i.e. the people on this list are not going
> > > to recognize the reviewers more, it's up to you to educate your managers
> > > / company more.)
> > 
> > This is not only about managers / company. Reviewers does not seem
> > to have much recognition in upstream community either. For example
> > we do take into account s-o-b when creating preliminary list of
> > people to get invited to kernel summit, but we do _not_ take into
> > account reviewd-by (or has anything changed?)...
>   Reviewed-by *is* taken into account for KS selection. It is even
> positively biased against s-o-b AFAIK.

Good to know :) Thanks!

-Lukas

> 
> 							Honza
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