Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

[J. Wesley Cleveland]

> From: Kai Blin <kai.blin at gmail.com>

> On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:32, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > Frankly, all we really need is for Alexandre to write a 10-second reply
> > to wine-devel for each patch he rejects.
>
> On WineConf, we decided against this. That would still slow down the overall
> patch submission speed. Consider you have a patch that's just fine, but
> before you sent that, I sent in ten patches with C++ style comments.
> Alexandre would now have to reply to ten patches with "No C++ style comments"
> before processing your patch. Everybody reading wine-patches could point out
> what was wrong with my patches.

How about emacs macros that would send "Patch rejected" or "Patch
under consideration" to wine-patches or wine-devel ? This would get
rid of the feeling that patches are dropping into a black hole while
only costing Alexandre a fraction of a second per patch.