On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de> wrote:

> It is very discouraging - after 2 years of
> waiting to not see them at 1.0

It is indeed. There are also unmerged patches that are nearly 8 years
old... (not to mention patches in forks of flashrom). But things might
get better in the future. At least everything currently pushed to gerrit
gets a review. And I'm working on cleaning up old patches on patchwork
as well.

On that note, it would be helpful for folks to step up and take on maintainership of certain parts of the code. We often get patches for programmer X or mainboard Y, but without intimate knowledge of X or Y it can be difficult to review patches, and testing is often not possible due to the wide variety of hardware supported.

Maybe we should add a MAINTAINERS file or a wiki where people can volunteer based on their area of expertise - General infrastructure, Bus Pirate, Arduino, Intel platforms, Thinkpad issues, BSD/DOS/Windows support, etc. That will help triage patches and issues and get the right people looking at them.