[Nix-dev] Commit access request (Again: Why don't these peoplehave commit access)

Nikolay Amiantov ab at fmap.me
Mon Jan 19 23:11:20 CET 2015


Doesn't that usually apply to big things that most people skip reviewing
due to contributor's good
standing and "tl;dr" (though it shouldn't be like this, too... '^_^)?

On 01/20/2015 01:02 AM, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> On 20-01-2015 01:00:30, Michael Raskin wrote:
>>>> Nevertheless I want to go though my packages and do version bumps
>>>> in the near future, and I believe this (and things like grammar
>>>> fixes) is kind of patches that should be applied more directly than
>>>> usual, to bother less contributors so that they can focus on
>>>> more non-trivial things.
>>> What keeps you from having a "version-bumping" branch where all your
>>> patches are in and open just one PR for all the patches at once?
>> Pity towards me, who will read a PR of unrelated changes and wonder what
>> saced animal have I crossed in my previous life?
>>
> Have you ever looked how kernel maintainers do their work? For example
> greg-kh with his staging-next branch? Do you think someone actually
> goes through these patches except gregkh himself? ;-)
>

-- 
Nikolay.



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