I am adding one more topic:
linux-media development process discussion
Tempers have been a bit frayed recently about the way patches are reviewed and processed. We should take the opportunity of being in the same room to discuss this and see how the process can be improved.
We've always been a highly professional group of core developers, so I think it is important to address the issues that cropped up recently.
In my analysis (feel free to disagree) the core problem is what to do when important patch series get little or no review due to lack of time on the side of reviewers. I don't have any easy solutions, but perhaps it could be a mix of requiring at least one non-author sign-off from core devs for such patches, and somehow identifying the crucial patches. A review isn't normally necessary for general churn that does not impact functionality, so a way of filtering those out when reviewing might be helpful. Or explicitly asking for reviews for specific patches.
In the case of the MC work being done recently the problem is that Laurent is in a permanent state of -ENOTIME, and I have had almost no time as well during the last 4-5 months. It looks like that will change for me, so I hope to have more time very soon.
A smaller practical issue I have has been the policy of avoiding posting large patch series due to concerns of flooding of the mailinglist. I found that that made my life as reviewer much harder. IMHO this is a mailinglist for developers and as such flooding is no issue for me. Ease of reviewing trumps that any time. It's not as if this happens every day.
Regards,
Hans
On 03/14/2016 02:41 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
I have these topics:
- Continue MC connector entity discussion
- CEC status update (to be confirmed)
- A short demo of the qdisp utility I am working on
Laurent, would it make sense to discuss your work on the request API?
Another possible topic:
media-ctl vs mc_nextgen_test: having two utilities makes me very unhappy!
I think we have a fairly small group this time, so I am not sure if we need a full fledged agenda. If the group will be larger than expected, then please let me know and I will prepare a proper agenda.
Regards,
Hans
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