Re: What's the staging review and acceptance process?

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:17:08AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:49:02 -0700
> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:25:57PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 20:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > That caused the huge backlog staring at
> > > > me right now.
> > > 
> > > Which likely discouraged the new contributors who
> > > submitted stuff still in that backlog.
> > 
> > While a series of unfortunate events did happen to cause this, do you
> > have any evidence of this causing people to go away? 
> 
> Subjectively the answer is yes I think. More quantatively it was the case.
> I did some measurements long ago with 2.4-ac and there was direct and
> clear connection between two things and patch submission/activity levels.
> One was 'cycle time' (ie time from submit->response->tree) - the other was
> putting the name of the contributor in the per -ac patch summaries that
> used to get mailed out.

Yeah, I know I liked seeing my name there, that was very nice to have :)

thanks,

greg k-h