On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 05:21:05PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
From my side I'd like to change the conversation a little, to how to land code, rather than why we should bother. "Code needs to land" should be the motto. If someone has taken the time to create something, our bias should be towards getting it in, with sufficient changes to make it fit the project. There are cases where something is just a bad idea, or should be done another way, but for people working on major features or changes, biasing towards not landing the code is just going to make them go elsewhere.
This is the wrong approach I believe. The goal has always been and continues to be to have reviewed (whenever possible, our developer community is small) incremental change over time. Just because something has been posted a number of times does not mean it's ready to be merged.
Your challenge today is that on patchwork you have over 150 patches covering a wide variety of topics and of which many series have technically-merited feedback that needs to be addressed in a technical manner.