On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.)

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 03:25:26AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Friday, February 7, 2025 1:16:11 PM Eastern Standard Time Konstantin 
> Ryabitsev wrote:

> > It is my goal to be able to give subsystems a way to use forges without it
> > impacting how they interact with upstream or handle tree-wide changes. That
> > is, once I'm done moving things from one Benevolent Company to another.

> Honestly, this is probably not possible. If a subsystem moves to a forge 
> workflow, it pretty much means tree-wide changes need to work partially that 
> way too.

We do actually have some people using forges already, for example the
SOF people do a bunch of their review on github and then turn that into
patch serieses which they send via the normal email route when they're
happy with them.  I think tree wide stuff flows in via back merges or
rebases, one of the benefits of delegation is that it's not my problem.
This all works perfectly well from my side, as far as I know it's fine
for the SOF people too.  It certainly doesn't seem insurmountable.
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