Re: Questions on patch lifecycle

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Apr 22, 2008, 04:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20080422044336.GA29771@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <1208837481.26863.374.camel@goose.sun.com>

"Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com> wrote:

>    0. Junio, are you the only Git maintainer or are there
>       others responsible for particular subsystems of Git?

There are a number of subsystem maintainers, but most stuff
does go through Junio, yes.

>    1. What's the official way of submitting a patch?
>       Is git-send-email(1) to this mailing list
>       good enough? Does a submitter have to have
>       a public tree that maintainer(s) can pull from?

Docmentation/SubmittingPatches

>    2. Once the patch is submitted how does the author
>       get notified whether it is accepted, rejected
>       or needs additional work.

Rejections get emailed to the author, and generally also to the list.

Acceptance needs to be watched for by the author by fetching Junio's nightly updates, and seeing if your patch made it into next, or into pu, or not at all.

If it isn't there after a couple of days and if you have also not received a rejection notice indicating why it was not applied, it probably got dropped. A polite reminder would then be OK.

-- 
Shawn.