On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:25:57PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 20:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > That caused the huge backlog staring at me right now.
> > Which likely discouraged the new contributors who
> > submitted stuff still in that backlog.
> do you have any evidence of this causing people to go away?

I think it's pretty established that response delays
cause losses of one type or another.

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> > Unfortunately, your process has been opaque until you
> > personally handle it.
> Yes, like all subsystem maintainers, right?

Not really, patchwork shows status immediately.

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> Are you volunteering?

Guess so.

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