[GIT PULL] Multi Cluster Power Management infrastructure

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:30:58AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Now, I'm currently on holiday.  I'm going to be on holday until after
> > mid-April.  I'm not pulling anything until then.  I'm not applying anything
> > until then.  I'm not even reading this mailbox - and given current mail
> > rates at 300-400 messages per day, I will *not* be reading back over a
> > fortnights worth of email.
> 
> That is also unacceptable.  Again, you are the appointed ARM kernel 
> maintainer.  You have to plan a backup when you are away.  If the load 
> is too much, you have to delegate.

Thank you for showing what a self-centred individual you are.

Tell me, how do I delegate the physical act of scanning through email
to someone else to find out those emails which I may want to reply to?

Now, just take a moment to do the math.  At 400 messages per day, with
an average of one minute a message, that's 6.5 hours.  Four days of that
and you're looking at 20 hours to catch up - realistically two days.
Meanwhile another 13 hours of messages (800) have arrived.  So that's
another day and a bit of nothing but scanning, during which time more
than 6.5 hours of messages have again arrived...

I've said this before, and I've done the above before - over a much
longer period.  Other kernel developers do this too - they will actively
remove their mailboxes after returning from a vacation because its
too painful to catch up by reading mail.  Linus will also do the same -
he will require things to be (re-)sent when he's returned from vacation.

Yet _you_ seem to think that this is not acceptable behaviour?  Sorry,
I disagree - it's the _only_ sensible and sane way.