if we would have been using PR, anyone would be able to have a look at single place and find opened PRs.
can you find unmerged patches ? 2016-05-02 15:46 GMT+05:00 Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de>: > Hi > > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 03:19:54PM +0500, ???????? ?????????????? wrote: > > when using mailing list there's no way to clearly determine what was done > > and needs to pay attention to. > > > > and people get disappointed "I sent a patch and nothing happened" > > > > how that is supposed to work in mailing list paradigma? > > how's that different from a PR which gets opened and nothing happend? > > *If* something happens, someone will respond - both to the list, and > to the PR. > > Having more people work on code and review instead of spending discussions > on the "how to submit patches" would help more :-) > > Don't forget that this is not your standard open source project - we have > massively higher reviewing requirements than "send PR, description makes > sense, merge" - and so far, our track record of security issues in OpenVPN > seems to agree that this is not the worst approach. (Sometimes it is > totally annoying to have to wait for an ACK for an "obviously correct" > one-line fix, but *transparency* is the ultimate goal here, so nobody can > sneak something in with two mouse clicks) > > gert > > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > // > www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany > g...@greenie.muc.de > fax: +49-89-35655025 > g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de >
