[Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 20/04/2017 at 11:31:31 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Laura Abbott <labbott at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I brought up bug reporting last year and I still consider that to be
> > an issue this year. A good example is
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194911 which didn't really
> > make progress until I sent out a separate e-mail thread summarizing
> > the bisections people did.
> 
> The service level at https://bugzilla.kernel.org heavily depends on the
> subsystem/driver. Some maintainers just ignore it completely.
> MAINTAINERS now has the "B:" entry to document where maintainers want
> bugs reported, and I'd like to see more maintainers document their
> preferences there.
> 

I think that addition has not been noticed by many maintainers and that
is actually one of my pain point.
I feel like that kind of changes that are relevant for all the
maintainers are not advertised enough but I also realize you probably
don't want to Cc: every maintainer on your patch.

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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