Re: Make clear, when contributions will be ignored

["Дилян Палаузов" <dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org>]

Hello Segher,

On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 13:09 -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 04:59:40PM +0000, Дилян Палаузов wrote:
> > My point is to reorgnize the approach in such a way, that sending reminders gets irrelevant (has no impact) and
> > therefore not necessary.
> > 
> > Currently priority is given to submitters who send reminders, irrespective of the properties a patch has.
> 
> No, that is not true for many reviewers.  It is however true that patches
> that are *not* pinged (say, once a week) often are forgotten, or the
> maintainer assumes the patch is not wanted anymore, etc.

The assumption that an unpinged patch is not wanted any more is obviously wrong.  The assumption shall be, that people
who do not send reminders have not read, that they are supposed to send reminers, as these people assume that sending
reminders makes no difference.

If this is not true for many reviewers, why does sending reminder then make a difference and the webpage advices to send
reminders?  

To sum up, sending a reminder on a subject and the subject (patch being good/bad/excellent/inappropriate/messy) are two
different things.  I am talking here about the necessity for sending reminders, irrespective of the subject/properties a
patch has.

Regards
  Дилян