PR review situation (was: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Series of minor fixes/cleanup for shell wrapper)

[Bjørn Mork]

Philip Prindeville via openwrt-devel <openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org>
writes:

> Note: there are PR's in GitHub for these, but it's not apparent if
> anyone looks at those or not.

Not convinced that the mailing list is any better. There are 553 patches
with state "action required" on
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/list/ and that's not before
there is a high volume of patches on this mailing list.

Around 400 of those patches are more than a year old.  They are not
likely to ever see any action.

But some of the patches are probably already applied from github since
this situation leads to desperate developers doing exactly what you do:
Send duplicates in every possible channel.  I don't think that was the
intention when it was decided to use both the mailing list and github
PRs for patches.  And it's not likely to help those few who actually
review and apply patches.

OK, looks like whining again.  It's not.  It's an attempt to describe
the current imperfect state.  I have no real solution.  The obvious
answer is that OpenWrt needs more active reviewers.  But how?



Bjørn