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Re: Clean up state on patchwork
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <sid at reserved-bit dot com>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:04:40 -0400
- Subject: Re: Clean up state on patchwork
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On 09/18/2015 12:24 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> I agree we need more review of smaller patches.
>>
>> Thanks go out to Mike Frysinger who has been doing a lot of that lately.
>
> Yes, picking up old patches from patchwork and reviewing them is very
> helpful. (So is fixing up issues from review if the review was a while
> back and the original submitter seems to have lost interest but the change
> still seems to make sense.)
>
> We have several large backlogs, including: patches needing review;
> patchwork cleanup to make it easier to find patches needing review; bug
> reports in Bugzilla needing fixing (or shepherding patches through review
> if a patch was attached and nothing more happened, etc., or obtaining
> consensus on whether a proposed new feature is desirable) (I expect a
> large proportion of the 827 open bugs would not be hard to resolve).
All hail the new era of too many contributions!
c.