Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:59:08 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH docs] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers |
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On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 10:22:18AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:24:38 +0200 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Also: It's totally normal that commercial vendor contribute basic > > drivers with known problems and missing features (some of which will > > never be implemented). The latter will be considered a "bug" for quite a > > few users that read this. Those suddenly thus might becomes something > > they now "must" fix, which leads to questions: how fast? just in > > mainline, or in stable, too?
> If we try to fend off anyone who doesn't understand common meaning > of words the document will be very long and painful to read.
That's true, but "bug" is one of those things where there is a frequent disconnect on definitions, and when coupled with the must respond bit I can see things going wrong. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |