Change Review and Management [ was: Re: Getting patches applied]

2014-04-23 Thread Valerie Anne Fenwick
Hi all - Dipping my toes into this thread. Large projects need tools to help manage what's coming in. Matt brings this point home well below. Some history, for about 7 or 8 years, I was the ON CRT Chair for Solaris. The CRT, or Change Review Team, reviewed all changes for the ON (Operating

Re: Getting patches applied

2014-04-11 Thread Matt Caswell
On 11 April 2014 00:00, Steve Marquess marqu...@opensslfoundation.com wrote: With the very, very important caveat that I'm not one of the people who directly carry this burden: There is certainly room for improvement in the process by which patches are reviewed and merged into OpenSSL. For

Re: Getting patches applied

2014-04-11 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:26:08AM +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: On 11 April 2014 00:00, Steve Marquess marqu...@opensslfoundation.com wrote: With the very, very important caveat that I'm not one of the people who directly carry this burden: There is certainly room for improvement in the

Getting patches applied

2014-04-10 Thread Kurt Roeckx
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?

Re: Getting patches applied

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Marquess
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

Re: Getting patches applied

2014-04-10 Thread Kurt Roeckx
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

Re: Getting patches applied

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Marquess
On 04/10/2014 05:36 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: ... 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