[PATCH] dim: Enforce review requirements

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Fri May 26 06:40:11 UTC 2017


On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Lukas Wunner <lukas at wunner.de> wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:28:12AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> We can't check this when applying (since r-b/a-b tags often get added
>> afterwards), but we can check this when pushing. This only looks at
>> patches authored by the pusher.
>
> BTW, can we also have a rule that large drivers (i.e. with a large user
> base) are required to provide at least one person at all times (or at
> least outside the merge window) who is able to review fixes, push them
> to the driver's repo and send a timely pull to Dave?
>
> On multiple occasions I've seen Dave send a fixes pull with an apology
> along the lines of "a bit more than usual at this time of the cycle
> because it includes two weeks worth of driver XYZ fixes".

AMD is already planning to swtich to a group/committer model, I just
discussed that with Alex. That takes care of the huge drivers
(intel/amd) and the small ones (if they are in drm-misc). No idea what
we'll end up doing with the medium sized drivers, but I guess that's a
discussion for the next months/years ...
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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