[OpenAFS-devel] Gerrit reviews and the rate of acceptance

[Matt W. Benjamin]

Hi,

Ok, that was a great overstatement.  Upstream is interested in all kinds of new things, but the current processes promote very careful inclusion of potentially broadly applied, small changes.  

The original question was, why isn't there more forward progress--by which the questioner meant, not "why aren't there more commits in gerrit," but, "where are the new, world changing features?"  As you know, there's a huge backlog, and, if current rates of absorbtion continue, it will be 2014 before more than half of them are in a release.  I'm not sure that's bad, from a change management point of view, but, it seems to be a problem nonetheless.

Matt

----- "Simon Wilkinson" <simonxwilkinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> > Yes, given an upstream uninterested in new work, developers will
> perceive it as not 
> > worth their time to keep such a process moving.
> 
> I think that the huge volume of changes that have gone through gerrit,
> from a large body of developers, demonstrates the fallacy of this
> statement.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon

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