Getting patches reviewed as an outside contributor

Neel Chauhan neel at neelc.org
Tue Jun 23 04:46:34 UTC 2020


Alexander,

Thank you so much for the advice.

I have sent the email to freebsd-net at . No response yet (I just sent it).

-Neel Chauhan

https://www.neelc.org/

On 2020-06-22 13:05, Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-hackers wrote:
> Quoting Neel Chauhan <neel at neelc.org> (from Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:02:00 
> -0700):
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have many patches, focusing on the TCP/IP stack on Phabricator.
>> 
>> Some of them are accepted, but not committed. Most are stuck as  needs 
>> review. And many of these patches are only a few lines/trivial.
>> 
>> For instance, on my Phabricator:
>> 
>>  * My account: https://reviews.freebsd.org/p/neel_neelc.org/
>>  * My patches: https://reviews.freebsd.org/people/revisions/5933/
>> 
>> Would these patches get reviewed eventually? Is there anything I can  
>> do to speed up the process? Or is this something I need to be  patient 
>> about?
> 
> What helps is to send a mail to freebsd-net at freebsd.org and to ask for
>  review/commit. Include a little description of what your patch
> fixes/improves. If this doesn't result in a respose, you can also have
>  a look at the commit log of the area you patch, and send a few people
>  which worked in this area recently a mail and ask if they could have
> a  review of your patch.
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.


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