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 Further reading:
 
-http://www.coreboot.org/Git
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+http://www.coreboot.org/Git
+
+
+When can I expect my contribution to be committed?
+==================================================
+
+The code review is intended to take as long as a week or two to allow
+maintainers and contributors who work on OpenOCD only in their spare
+time oportunity to perform a review and raise objections.
+
+With Gerrit much of the urgency of getting things committed has been
+removed as the work in progress is safely stored in Gerrit and
+available if someone needs to build on your work before it is
+submitted to the official repository.
+
+Another factor that contributes to the desire for longer cool-off
+times (the time a patch lies around without any further changes or
+comments), it means that the chances of quality regression on the
+master branch will be much reduced.
+
+If a contributor pushes a patch, it is considered good form if another
+contributor actually approves and submits that patch.