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

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Friday 17 July 2015 12:23:03 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:10:25 -0700 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > I tried both (ping and resend). In either case the response depends on the
> > maintainer. Some will accept either, some will say you should have
> > res-sent the patch if you sent a ping, some will tell you that you should
> > have pinged if you re-sent it. Depending on the maintainer the response
> > can be pretty strong.
> > 
> > It would be great to have a single well defined and documented mechanism
> > to avoid the "whatever you do is wrong" response.
> 
> Or at least a polite reply to have them do it the other way.
> 
>  "Hi! Sorry, I've been busy and haven't had time to review your patch.
>  Can you please resend the patch to me again, my inbox corrupted your
>  old one"
> 
> Sure the corruption message may be a lie,

"My dog ate your patch" sounds better to me. We could then have a contest to 
see who will come up with the best fake excuse :-)

> but at least it will keep them from saying "why not use what I already sent
> you".

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart