Re: [RFC] How to accellerate the patch flow (or should we?)
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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
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- Sep 29, 2025, 23:25 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 03:46:47PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes: > > > Despite the potential awkwardness I have to wonder whether this would > > even help us with the goal to speed up the overall process. To me it > > rather feels like there's another step now that a patch series has to go > > through, so my naive expectation is that it will rather slow the process > > down even more. > > > > Am I missing something? > > The above is an effort to reduce the chance/risk that the maintainer > is *not* made aware of the fact that a topic has already been well > reviewed, or the latest reroll has addressed all the issues > previously have pointed out and the reviewers are happy with its > shape, and ready to be merged to 'next', just left in 'seen' labeled > with "Will merge to 'next'?", etc.
Ah, okay, that makes more sense then. So basically, reviewers should more explicitly state their overall opinion on a patch series so that it becomes easier for you to figure out the current state at a glance?
Patrick