On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Jonathan Aquilina
<eagles051387@gmail.com> wrote:
> Doesnt email run the risk of a patch slipping through the cracks?

as highlighted by Deepak above, each project will use the
processes/methods inherited from its 'upstream'. That's why gerrit is
being used for Android activities for example. many successful open
source projects are using solely email for patch submission and
review, and that happens to work fine. yes, that makes lots of emails,
and patches can be lost, but the general rule is that it's up to the
patch author to follow-up and potentially resubmit when such things
happen. for example, the Linux kernel documentation says this:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=refs/tags/v3.9-rc7#n262

nicolas