From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE81A04A4; Tue, 26 May 2020 15:57:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5781D66F; Tue, 26 May 2020 15:57:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AEDB1D66E; Tue, 26 May 2020 15:57:37 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: B34n80esI4mFQfKEfYPrbnUw684OH0sdsuLtoABZGewJxM2SWhzgJKESrHErSInt/UUkmMxiw6 gjJ2egd9DkyQ== X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 26 May 2020 06:57:36 -0700 IronPort-SDR: 4riHk0FTrQTKCdnIFcM0FuLYwrrkAUPJH5MYaq0KZT5sLHkneQPCiRHkmt1/Er3AnQpYD/ZPz1 ABkHgM+ePGiw== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.73,437,1583222400"; d="scan'208";a="375704158" Received: from aburakov-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.209.43.93]) ([10.209.43.93]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 May 2020 06:57:34 -0700 To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: Jerin Jacob , =?UTF-8?Q?Morten_Br=c3=b8rup?= , Maxime Coquelin , dpdk-dev , techboard@dpdk.org, "Jim St. Leger" References: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35C60FEA@smartserver.smartshare.dk> <1664892.001bYUvlCK@thomas> <3833724.BKe9lYeCVe@thomas> From: "Burakov, Anatoly" Message-ID: <70bfdc14-7da8-1d1b-8c8b-f6c7eb00dd89@intel.com> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 14:57:33 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3833724.BKe9lYeCVe@thomas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] Consider improving the DPDKcontribution processes X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 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 :) -- Thanks, Anatoly