Peter Maydell <[email protected]> writes: > On 8 November 2018 at 18:08, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anyway there are no information about merge window in the wiki. >> When I started it was not easy to understand it and why patches sent when >> 'merge window is close' fall under the crap and are unnoticed, thus it is >> better to wait before to send, or resend them. > > The intention (not always something we succeed at) is that > maintainers should respond to patches, do review, etc, at > any point in our release cycle. During a release they might > reply to say "I won't get to reviewing this for a little while" > or "I'll take this patch once the trunk reopens for releases",
In both cases, the maintainer remains responsible for tracking the patches. I believe the sane thing to do is to review patches as usual, and to queue the ones that are ready to go into the next release on a separate branch. > but they shouldn't just leave patch submitters with no response > at all... Yes, that's rude. [...]
