On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 02:48:27PM -0700, Alison Schofield wrote:
Kudo's to you for asking and for looking through the lore history of your subsystem and finding the history of this feature.
There's a lot of variability in lore mailing lists, reviewers, and maintainers responsiveness, so to be generic, I'll suggest your #2 option. Reply to the patch, show what you'd like to change, and see what happens.
Maybe you breathe new life into it, the original author picks up your changes, and the feature moves forward.
Maybe the original author acknowledges your changes and asks you to pick it up and carry it forward.
Maybe crickets, in which case you can submit a new patch, probably with a tag 'Originally-by:' or 'Co-developed-by'.
BTW if you do pick it up, make sure to address any concerns raised with the original patch.
Good Luck, Alison
Hi Alison, Thanks for the advice! In that case I'll work on putting some review comments together and see if it goes anywhere. If not I'll consider publishing my own patch. The original patch didn't seem to receive any concerns, but hopefully some renewal to it could get some more attention on it. Thanks, Torin