At the suggestion of jclift, I am resending this email as its own
thread in the hopes that more people will notice it.
I am a bit disconcerted by the number of 'self-acks' I have been
seeing on list lately. I know there were some complaints about speed
of reviews a while back, which led (I thought) to the community
agreeing that if you had a trivial fix/patch that you were confident
broke nothing, you could go ahead and push. This was not meant, in my
estimation anyway, to give everyone open license to just push whatever
they want with no review. We should still be reviewing and testing
patches properly, and if you have something that has been sitting on
list waiting for review (like, ahem, my mysql-fixing patch, someone
please look at it!), it is up to you to make a nuisance of yourself in
whatever way you want until you get a reviewer to work with you.
This is not directed at anyone specific, there have just been too many
of late, and I could not sit quietly and watch them go by anymore.
-j