On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:32:14 +0100 Dominig ar Foll <[email protected]> said:
> Hello, > > After 3 days we have only 3 pending patches which have progressed. > Still 19 to go. > See attached file. > Maintainers, please step up. > > Regards i can tell you what the problem likely is... the people you are trying to ping are not even subscribed here. most developers who work on stuff that's related to tizen around me simply are not on any tizen mailing lists. also the email system they are meant to use (webmail) doesn't have filtering, deletes all mail after 2 weeks, and has no threading abilities... they just never know you said anything... :) most likely. so you are shouting at an empty room. i have a suggestion to cure this. 1. we require anyone doing any tizen development (especially anyone who has to review or approve something) to be subscribed to this mailing list, and must read it actively. if people want to be involved they need to be contactable and actually respond. they need to know about general discussions etc. 2. given #1, we send out a ping here to EVERYONE that they must respond to on this mailing list. ensure the mail is not just a few lines (make it 50 or 100 lines long) so you see if they READ their email or not (eg if it's more than 2 lines they skip it). 3. wait 2 weeks. 4. everyone who has not responded after 2 weeks gets removed from having any review/maintainer roles. replace those people with some generic maintainer person who does respond, so things can move along. i've been following this "someone please look at my review" thing for a while now. there are pings here and it regularly fails to get attention. people are not doing their jobs it seems. they don't take their responsibility seriously enough to respond within a reasonable time. i see no alternative but to be harsh at this point. also publish the list of all people removed so there is a bit of public naming and shaming. it's time to learn the hard way. -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/dev
