No pull for mtd?

[Brian Norris]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:13 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 16:02 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > As of pull requests, dwmw2 sends them, not me. He
>> > didn't send it this time though.
>>
>> Hence my questions (now directed entirely at David): "Any reason for
>> this miss? Can we get a guarantee a pull for 3.12 at least?"
>>
>> And an added question: if not, shall we move for a change/addition in
>> maintainership? This is the second merge window missed in the last
>> year (we missed v3.6-rc1).
>
> Apologies. Artem usually does a very good job of lining things up for
> me, and I then apply a little more 'editorial control' before sending
> the result on to Linus.
>
> This time it fell through the cracks because Artem was away and didn't
> hassle me like he usually does, and I've been contending with the
> distraction of a 12-week-old baby.

Is there any hassling the rest of us can do in the future to avoid
this situation? Ezequiel gave a timely reminder via email (2 or 3 days
left in the merge window). We can shout louder and earlier, but it's
hard to tell if we're shouting into an empty forest sometimes.

Brian