On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 04:40:13PM -0400, Steve Marquess wrote: > On 04/10/2014 03:22 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've seen many examples of patches being submitted but never > > getting applied. For some problems there are actually multiple > > people submitting a patch for the same issue, and none of them > > getting applied. > > > > What is the problem getting them applied? Not enough people to do > > the reviewing? People who have commit access don't have enough > > time, or different priorities? > > Yes, yes, and not necessarily. > > While I'm not one of the OpenSSL committers, I've had the honor and > privilege of being close enough to some of the action to have an > appreciation for the heavy burden of responsibility they carry. > > IMHO user community contributions, and the care and effort that went > into them and the desire and need for them, are not being callously > disregarded. It's just that after all the urgently necessary activities > are covered there isn't a lot of discretionary time left over. OpenSSL > hangs by a thinner thread than most people realize.
So my the question is basically what we can do so that more of the patches get applied in a reasonable time? For instance, would it help to use "Signed-off-by" or "Reviewed-by" patches in some git tree? If I'm going to put time in this, will someone take the time to get them applied? Kurt ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
