a simple request: apply all outstanding patches.

[Natanael Copa]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 08:39 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Natanael Copa wrote:

> that sounds reasonable.  as i think about it, there's an interesting
> parallel with ethernet traffic analysis here.

...

> i suspect patch submission works much the same way.  as long as there
> are few submissions, no problem.  but if you start to overwhelm the
> maintainer and patches start taking longer to be processed, submitters
> assume their patch got lost so they re-submit, which puts more work on
> the maintainer, which causes him to fall further behind, which
> inspires submitters to re-submit again ... you get the idea.

Yes. Maybe we should stop submitting patches, except those who actually
help rob forward, until he get on top of the situation again. Then we
can discuss how we can help him _how_ to get the patches commited in a
timely manner.

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Natanael Copa