MFC reminder emails (was Re: svn commit: r308296 - head/sys/cam/scsi)

Harry Schmalzbauer freebsd at omnilan.de
Mon Dec 12 11:37:33 UTC 2016


 Bezüglich Oliver Pinter's Nachricht vom 12.12.2016 00:57 (localtime):
> Hi Pedro!
>
> On 12/11/16, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hello;
>> On 12/10/16 19:58, Oliver Pinter wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>>>   Reviewed by:	ken
>>>>   Obtained from:	Netflix
>>>>   MFC after:	3 days
>>> Hi Scott!
>>>
>>> What's the status of the MFCs to 10-STABLE and 11-STABLE?
>>>
>> Not meaning to pester anyone but given that you (and others) tend
>> to remind about MFCs you would like to see done ...
>>
>> 1) Committers get an email reminder in due time when they add an
>> MFC tag to the commit log.
>>
>> 2) MFCs are advisory: committer may change mind about them or
>> otherwise not do them due to any reason.
>>
>> 3) It's still not official, but we have an additional service
>> that lets committers verify the state of MFC requests if they wish.
>>
>> Given the points above, which you may not have been aware of,
>> it may be seen as rude to post additional reminders.

Thanks for explaining, and apologies, since I've been one of those
others too.

But sometimes I got back »Thanks for the reminder, forgt/lost a/b/c...«

So I hope those adressees for whom point 2) was the case will just
ignore it and don't feel disordered.
Since people asking about a MFC status are aware of the committ, the
reminder is meant to support committers and the release quality,
otherwise we could silently adopt ourselfs...

I'm completely unsure if these reminders are welcome or not. Of course,
it's committer-dependent to some degree, but what's the "official"
position: Being quiet or asking if chances are good that it got lost?

Shall we strip svn-src-all@ ?

Thanks,

-harry



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