On 5/16/24 17:36, Jacob Champion wrote:
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 2:29 PM Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com> wrote:
If no one, including the author (new or otherwise) is interested in
shepherding a particular patch, what chance does it have of ever getting
committed?
That's a very different thing from what I think will actually happen, which is
- new author posts patch
- community member says "use commitfest!"
Here is where we should point them at something that explains the care
and feeding requirements to successfully grow a patch into a commit.
- new author registers patch
- no one reviews it
- patch gets automatically booted
Part of the care and feeding instructions should be a warning regarding
what happens if you are unsuccessful in the first CF and still want to
see it through.
- community member says "register it again!"
- new author says ಠ_ಠ
As long as this is not a surprise ending, I don't see the issue.
Like Tom said upthread, the issue isn't really that new authors are
somehow uninterested in their own patches.
First, some of them objectively are uninterested in doing more than
dropping a patch over the wall and never looking back. But admittedly
that is not too often.
Second, I don't think a once every two months effort in order to
register continuing interest is too much to ask.
And third, if we did something like Magnus' suggestion about a CF
parking lot, the process would be even more simple.
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Joe Conway
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