How to get your patches ignored indefinitely

[Augie Fackler]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> Queuebot's been nicely asking people to be less bursty since the
> beginning of the year but it apparently isn't working. On Friday night,
> I had no patches in my inbox, but by 7am Saturday morning queuebot was
> asking everyone to slow down and this morning it's asking people to
> wait. This is your friendly reminder that you're not doing yourself any
> favors by ignoring its advice.
>
> If you send your patches in large bursts, you'll quickly find yourself
> on the end of this list:
>
> http://www.selenic.com/inflight
>
> This list is sorted roughly by:
>
> - branch
> - number of patches from each developer
> - age of patch
>
> ..and I use it as a guide for what order to look at patches. Thus,
> people who respect the limited review bandwidth by having only a few
> patches in flight will be continuously rewarded with quick turn-around
> and higher throughput and people who don't will have a sad with no upper
> bound.

I already went through probably half of that backlog. That includes
all but one series from indygreg, which were mostly trivial
correctness fixes that aren't worth stalling the pipeline for IMO.

The ones that most need your attention are patch 3 of the progressive
series ("ui: add config knob for progressive mode") and Foozy's series
about revset behaviors.


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