Purpose of openwrt-devel?

[Chuanhong Guo]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:13 PM Elliott Mitchell <ehem+openwrt at m5p.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 01:55:07AM +0100, Robert Marko wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 01:36, Elliott Mitchell <ehem+openwrt at m5p.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, what purpose does the openwrt-devel mailing list serve?
> > >
> > > As near as I can tell it looks suspiciously like it is a method to divert
> > > developers from where everything is done.  There isn't too much review
> > > activity.  Anything which does get a positive review tends to simply
> > > disappear unless it is later resubmitted via GitHub.
> > >
> > > According to https://openwrt.org/submitting-patches patch submission via
> > > GitHub or the openwrt-devel mailing list can be done.  The amount of text
> > > seems to suggest the mailing list is preferred.  Yet, can anyone cite a
> > > single patch which was sent to the mailing list, reviewed positively and
> > > brought into the main branch without resubmitting via GitHub?

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/list/?state=3&archive=both&param=2&page=1

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> > Both methods of submitting changes are accepted.
>
> I must challenge this.  If patches via the mailing list were accepted,
> then we should see things sent to the mailing list getting into the
> repository.  Yet many patches get no attention.  Some get reviews from
> various people, yet then never get into the main repository.

There are a lot of GitHub pull requests that nobody feels like merging,
too. Patches are piling up at both places and I don't think this is a
mailing-list specific problem.

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Regards,
Chuanhong Guo