From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16263 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2005 14:26:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16217 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2005 14:25:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakermmtao04.cox.net) (68.230.240.35) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 4 Mar 2005 14:25:58 -0000 Received: from white ([68.9.64.121]) by lakermmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050304142557.TOGR11124.lakermmtao04.cox.net@white>; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:25:57 -0500 Received: from bob by white with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1D7Dke-0000fY-00; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:26:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:26:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: patch review time Message-ID: <20050304142600.GA2419@white> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20050303150022.GD32613@white> <01c5208c$Blat.v2.4$989a81a0@zahav.net.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01c5208c$Blat.v2.4$989a81a0@zahav.net.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:33:25AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:00:22 -0500 > > From: Bob Rossi > > > > I understand that people are busy, which is the very reason my patches > > take so long to create. However, from my perspective it simply takes to long, > > to get patch reviews done, except of course doco reviews from Eli :). > > I think I generally review all patches within my responsibility and/or > area of expertise with the same speed, not only the doco ones. I think you are missing the point here Eli. As an outsider of the GDB project I am complaining that I can't make a significant contribution to GDB because of patch review time. I am making the assertion that only MAINTAINERS are capable of getting any real work done. Even in that respect, Andrew himself stated, It's taken us three months to get through files a-c, simple math tells us that at that rate we'll finish sometime on '07. I don't think so. I'm calling for some type of action that will allow me to get some real work done on GDB. Only the MAINTAINERS are capable of fixing this problem, since I have absolutely no authority. I don't have the power to just commit my MI patches to GDB and tell you all "I don't think so". On the other hand, if the maintainers don't care about outside contributions enough, GDB will certain suffer, as well as the whole community. Thanks, Bob Rossi