Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:10:45 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add penalty for forcing a maintainer to edit a patch |
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On 02/01/13 13:07, Anca Emanuel wrote: > Joe, read lkml and decide after that. > I fully apove the pathch. > > Reviewed-by: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com> > > Review-requested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> > > > Comments: > You have 3 kernels to maintain as stable, plus drivers, plus etc. > If somebody post something without reading the docs, and you have to > repeat to them the same, again and more, then you MUST give an beer.
If someone is a repeat-repeat offender, they should just learn how to submit patches correctly. I.e., the maintainer should just keep saying to them, Sorry, please submit your patch correctly so that I can apply it.
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 16:43 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> >>> >>> Maintainers have to hand-edit patches (body of patches and changelog >>> entries) all the time. There needs to be some kind of penalty put into >>> place to keep developers from abusing maintainers. >> >> No, there doesn't. >> >> It's funny as a joke, it's not as an actual patch.
-- ~Randy
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