Patches Needing Review

[Felipe Contreras]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:57 AM, John Bailey <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org> wrote:
> Florian Quèze wrote:
>> It is not clear to me what the difference is between these 2 pages
>> (except that the second page lists more patches needing some care):
>> http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PatchesNeedingReview
>> http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/OpenPatches
>
> OpenPatches is a much more generic page that lists all open patches, all patches
> in a 'pending' status, open patches assigned to specific developers , and
> finally breaks patches down based on what component they're assigned to.  Note
> that this doesn't take into account patches that have been marked as needing
> improvement.  It's mainly useful for a quick, rough breakdown of patches.
>
> PatchesNeedingReview, on the other hand, is significantly simpler and lists only
> patches that have been marked as explicitly needing developer review to
> determine acceptibility and patches that have been marked as explicitly needing
> improvement before they're acceptible.  This page is much more useful for me to
> use to yell at people about languishing patches.  It's also useful to see how
> many would-be contributors never bother to follow up with improvements when we
> outline why patches are unacceptible.

Have you seen patchwork?
http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/LKML/list/

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Felipe Contreras