> Huh. I'm not sure I understand this. Once you accept a patch into the
> mainline source, are these people still supposed to maintain that patch?
> I would think the patch is now sort of dead, and any subsequent changes
The patch may be dead, but you want a likelyhood that the person who made
the patch will continue to fix it if it added new stuff. If its a bug fix
it may well be dead, if its a driver or a chunk of vm code then it needs
maintaining longer term.
Alan
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