Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: Remove unused python imports

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 7:43 PM Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
> > On 8 November 2018 at 18:08, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Anyway there are no information about merge window in the wiki.
> >> When I started it was not easy to understand it and why patches sent when
> >> 'merge window is close' fall under the crap and are unnoticed, thus it is
> >> better to wait before to send, or resend them.
> >
> > The intention (not always something we succeed at) is that
> > maintainers should respond to patches, do review, etc, at
> > any point in our release cycle. During a release they might
> > reply to say "I won't get to reviewing this for a little while"
> > or "I'll take this patch once the trunk reopens for releases",
>
> In both cases, the maintainer remains responsible for tracking the
> patches.
>
> I believe the sane thing to do is to review patches as usual, and to
> queue the ones that are ready to go into the next release on a separate
> branch.
>
> > but they shouldn't just leave patch submitters with no response
> > at all...
>
> Yes, that's rude.

Thanks both to clarify your maintainer view.
I added this thread to my TODO and if nobody write about this in the
wiki I'll, but later.

Phil.