Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] Consider improving the DPDKcontribution processes

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

26/05/2020 15:57, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 26-May-20 1:45 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 26/05/2020 12:52, Burakov, Anatoly:
> >> On 26-May-20 11:33 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> And therein lies the problem: Thomas (David, etc.) doesn't look at every
> >>>>> area of the code, he relies on us to do it. However, *he* is doing the
> >>>>> committing, and fixing up patches, etc. - so, i can't really say things
> >>>>> like, "hey, your indentation's wrong here, but Thomas will fix it on
> >>>>> apply" because that's me pushing more work onto Thomas, something i
> >>>>> don't think i have the moral right to do :)
> >>>
> >>> You can send a new version of the patch with the details fixed,
> >>> publicly readable, reviewable, and ready to be pushed.
> >>
> >> To be completely honest, that's something that's never occurred to me,
> >> and it sounds like a great idea. The downside is that taking over
> >> someone else's patch and resubmitting it may be taken the wrong way :)
> >> (and could also lead to confusion e.g. regarding versioning)
> > 
> > It happens to me to continuing work started by someone else.
> > I keep original authorship, add my Signed-off-by, increment versioning,
> > and insert it in the original thread with --in-reply-to.
> 
> No, confusion not on your side, but on the side of the person whose 
> patch has been taken over :)

I understood it correctly :)
This is what I call collaboration.
The best is to have good communication with its peers,
then workload sharing becomes a detail, in my opinion.