From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:00:40 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] How to accellerate the patch flow (or should we?) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Patrick Steinhardt writes: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 03:46:47PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Patrick Steinhardt 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? If they did so, it may reduce the time a topic wastes in limbo, waiting for me to notice that it is ready. What I do not know is if such an additional burden on reviewers would slow us down overall. Thanks.