patch review proceedings (was: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] make cache2.c readable)

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 06:16:04PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:39:04 +0300
> Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> 
> > what I said in the earlier mail: patches to code/features that have
> > active maintainers get applied while other patches often won't unless
> > they're completely trivial/obvious, and the proportion of unnecessarily
> > dropped patches is more a function of which code parts have active
> > maintainers rather than of how many "reviewers" there are.
> 
> Which boils down to something i mentioned quite a few times
> over the last years (ok, not that actively the last 2-3y):
> 
> _We_need_more_maintainers_.

IMO this is a major problem for open source development.  Too few people
are willing to take on maintenance chores.

Diego