Re: [RFC 5/7] Docs: Expectations for bug reporters and maintainers

2013-05-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:23:28AM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:15:06PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > Patches go from the developer, to the maintainer, to one of Linus's > > lieutenants, to Linus himself. If you submit a patch to a maintainer > > they owe you a response.

Re: [RFC 5/7] Docs: Expectations for bug reporters and maintainers

2013-04-20 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/18/2013 06:52:45 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: Any other feedback on this patchset? If not, are you going to send it to Linus for 3.10 or should I? Go for it, I still need to pitch a new tent on kernel.org now that I've got my login back. (Touch overscheduled the past couple months...) Mean

Re: [RFC 5/7] Docs: Expectations for bug reporters and maintainers

2013-04-18 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:23:28AM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > TLDR version: Yes, it would be nice if bug reporters could go up the > hierarchy, but they don't have an easy way to know which subsystem > maintainers to contact. Perhaps a new line in MAINTAINERS for the > subsystem maintainer would

Re: [RFC 5/7] Docs: Expectations for bug reporters and maintainers

2013-04-18 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 06:49:40PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 04/17/2013 01:23:28 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:15:06PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > >> On 04/15/2013 12:33:34 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > >> >Outline how often it's polite to ping kernel maintainers about > >> >

Re: [RFC 5/7] Docs: Expectations for bug reporters and maintainers

2013-04-17 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/17/2013 01:23:28 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:15:06PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 04/15/2013 12:33:34 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > >Outline how often it's polite to ping kernel maintainers about > >bugs, and > >suggest that kernel maintainers should respond to bugs in 1

Re: [RFC 5/7] Docs: Expectations for bug reporters and maintainers

2013-04-17 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:15:06PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 04/15/2013 12:33:34 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > >Outline how often it's polite to ping kernel maintainers about > >bugs, and > >suggest that kernel maintainers should respond to bugs in 1 to 5 > >business days. > > Is there anything in

Re: [RFC 5/7] Docs: Expectations for bug reporters and maintainers

2013-04-17 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/15/2013 12:33:34 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: Outline how often it's polite to ping kernel maintainers about bugs, and suggest that kernel maintainers should respond to bugs in 1 to 5 business days. Is there anything in here about the four-level nature of modern maintainership? Patches go

[RFC 5/7] Docs: Expectations for bug reporters and maintainers

2013-04-15 Thread Sarah Sharp
Outline how often it's polite to ping kernel maintainers about bugs, and suggest that kernel maintainers should respond to bugs in 1 to 5 business days. Emphasize that regressions, userspace breakage, and kernel crashes are exceptions to that rule. Suggest escalation to LKML and Linus if these bu