Fundamentally I trust you to make sure this all goes correctly so let's not belabour the point or delay things here :)
So in that vein, Nico - I would sugesst for future respins adding a really clear bit to the header as David suggested :) also update the cover letter tests so it isn't reliant on a possibly ephemeral web link. But otherwise let's proceed as was. On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 02:24:45PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > > > > > Anyhow, to me the dependency is obvious, but I've followed the MM meeting > > > discussions, development etc. > > > > Right but is it clear to Andrew? I mean the cover letter was super unclear > > to me. > > I mean, assuming that it would not be clear to Andrew (and I think it is > clear to Andrew), I we would get CCed on these emails and could immediately > scream STOOOOOP :) > > And until this would hit mm-stable, a bit more time would pass. > > > > > What's to prevent things getting merged out of order? > > Fortunately, there are still people working here and not machines (at least, > that's what I hope). Obligatory link to this :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lsExRvJTAI > > > And do people 'just > > have to remember' to resend? > > Yes, in this case Nico wants to get his stuff upstream and must drive it > once the dependencies are met IMHO. > > > > > If there's a requirement related to the ordering of these series it really > > has to be expressed very clearly. > > Jup. I'll note that for now there was no strict rule what to tag as RFC and > what not that I know of. Of course, if people send broken, half-implemented, > untested ... crap, it should *clearly* be RFC. > > People should be spelling out dependencies in any case (especially for > non-RFC versions) clearly. > > I'll note that even if there would be a rule, I'm afraid we don't have a > good place to document it (and not sure if people would find it or even try > finding it ...) :/ Yeah... :) > > A big problem is when some subsystems have their own rules for how to handle > such things. That causes major pain for contributors ... Yeah, I wish there was something more general. > > -- > Cheers, > > David / dhildenb > Cheers, Lorenzo
