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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Keeping reviews meaningful
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:40:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190717164049.GA4532@kunai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbydfyx8LMG8FzCzAYsTP9n57K0yw9_04wgtDSjm+B3iQ@mail.gmail.com>

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> > Guys, I am just trying to better cope with an amount of patches I can't
> > handle on my own currently.
> 
> Maintainers don't scale right? :/

Yup, no news here.

> What I tend to do is git log on whatever is affected by a patch
> and then pick some people who touched the code recently
> and just add them to CC and ask them to help. This is especially

I do this, too. I also ask people from the same company as the patch
author to jump in.

> nice with drivers as I can quickly see (by intuition) whether
> they are doing some general cleanup or actually are running
> and testing the hardware, even if they didn't sign up as
> maintainers. Sometimes nudge them to maintain the stuff
> they seem so intimate with by adding themselves to
> MAINTAINERS.

I do this, too, and it works OK. I got a few driver maintainers listed.
Some are really active which is nice, some disappear again which is sad
but not too surprising. Yet, for every active new maintainer, I have to
check how they review.

This is what I mean with "trust matrix getting complex". Lots of new
maintainers where I need to build some trust relationship. Maybe it is
just a workflow thing, yet I feel I need some kind of tracking to do
this. And other stuff I mentioned in my initial mail, especially a short
summary of the review and a higher awareness that reviews can be
constructively criticized.


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      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-17 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-06 14:27 [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Keeping reviews meaningful Wolfram Sang
2019-07-06 16:52 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-07-06 17:17   ` Wolfram Sang
2019-07-08 10:47     ` Jan Kara
2019-07-08 11:47       ` Wolfram Sang
2019-07-15 16:11     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-08 11:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-07-08 11:59   ` Wolfram Sang
2019-07-15 15:58     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-15 17:00       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-07-15 17:11         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-16 21:26         ` Wolfram Sang
2019-08-17 21:35         ` Paul Walmsley
2019-08-19  6:57           ` Jan Kara
2019-08-19  7:06             ` Jiri Kosina
2019-08-19  7:06             ` Julia Lawall
2019-08-19  8:04               ` Jan Kara
2019-08-19  8:13                 ` Julia Lawall
2019-08-20 10:22                   ` James Bottomley
2019-08-19  8:26             ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-19 16:16               ` Christian Brauner
2019-08-19 19:04                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-19 21:03                   ` Christian Brauner
2019-07-08 14:57   ` Mark Brown
2019-07-14  9:35 ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-07-14 10:13   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-15  9:10     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-07-16 21:16     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-07-16 21:57       ` Olof Johansson
2019-07-16 22:27         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-17  3:59           ` Randy Dunlap
2019-07-17  7:31             ` Wolfram Sang
2019-07-17 16:05               ` Linus Walleij
2019-07-17 16:40                 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]

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