Purpose of openwrt-devel?

[Felix Baumann]

Am 13. März 2024 05:11:23 MEZ schrieb Elliott Mitchell <ehem+openwrt at m5p.com>:
>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.

It's the same for Github, some stuff doesn't get in and remains there. There might be a difference what kind of PRs are send to the mailing list and you get attention of different committers when sending to mailing list vs sending to Github. Github patches might be accepted more easily when it's just a new device for a well established target.

I feel like patches on the mailing list are ignored, when committers don't have time for review or don't feel confident enough to do it well (not their field of expertise). Or if it's written in a language they don't feel confident reviewing.

In the end it's up to one committer to do the merge. If Noone replies, then that doesn't happen and the patch will only collect dust.

Yes, that might be stupid if there was no critical comment on a patch but that is how it currently appears to be. This is still voluntary work and people choose themselves what to spend time on.

I realize this is not a satisfying answer.
I won't comment on how your code was used as a base for the script earlier this year. I'm not involved enough in the project to handle this. Regardless of copyright (since I'm just a layman): people didn't tell you about it or mentioned you in the commit that was merged. On a social level that was not okay, that is all I can say. I'm sure Noone meant harm but still: Noone thought about consequences.

I cc-ed Olliver to let him know about this mail thread.

Regards
Felix Baumann