[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists)

[Jason Cooper]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 02:08:46PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> I guess the suggestion becomes a deeper maintainer hierarchy where
> maintainers only pull from sub-maintainers, and sub-maintainers handle
> individual patches and smaller pull requests from contributors.
> This is essentially the model used for wireless.  That introduces
> the problem of increased patch merge latency, for which I have no
> good suggestions...

We haven't found that to be a problem in mvebu/arm-soc.  It does
increase the lead time a bit.  We stop accepting patches for the coming
merge window around -rc5/6 or so.  Judicious use of linux-next gives
sub-trees good coverage before landing in arm-soc.

I wouldn't advise adding another layer to that tree though.  Rather, as
I said in my other email, co-maintaining with lead rotation works well.

thx,

Jason.