Am 12.03.2012 18:34, schrieb Stefano Stabellini: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> On 03/12/2012 12:06 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I don't mean to steer any controversy or start any flame wars here, but >>> rather I want to point out a problem in the QEMU Community that is >>> preventing us and other people from having a good experience working >>> upstream with QEMU. Call it constructive criticism. >>> >>> Patches are being posted to the list that don't get any reviews at all. >>> Other patches get reviewed the first time, then once they are reposted >>> they don't get any other reviews or acked-by or reviewed-by. >> >> In all fairness, QEMU continues to grow year-to-year both in terms of total >> commits and number of contributors. >> >> The area that we struggle with is infrequent contributors that contribute >> non-trivial things and are write-only contributors. >> >> In this case, I really think the problem is expecting to be a write-only >> contributor. Part of participating in a community is not only pushing your >> own >> patches for acceptance but also reviewing other people's patches and >> participating in the discussion. If everyone only sends patches and doesn't >> review patches, then we'll never make progress. >> >> So I'd strongly suggest trying to spend some time reviewing other people's >> work. >> Right now, there are at least four different efforts around migration yet >> I >> don't see any of the people reviewing the other efforts. I think this is >> really >> the main problem. > > Point taken. > However maintainers should also be responsible of reviewing patches of > "infrequent write-only contributors".
Yes, but maintainers are overloaded because they also need to review patches of frequent write-only contributors. Kevin
