Ion Badulescu wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 02:24:05 -0400, Feuer wrote:
> > If I were Linus (and I am definitely not), I would assign an official
> > contact person for each subsystem (VFS, ext2, mm, sound, lp, etc. etc.
> > etc.). Everyone would send patches to the contact person (or subsystem
> > mailing list) and the contact person would do the patch selection,
> > combination, etc. and pass the results up to Linus for final
> > approval+inclusion. I think this would lessen his load, increase the
> > chances of good patches getting in, and avoid hassles. Just my $.02.
>
> And it would almost certainly increase the average size of the patches
> reaching Linus, with high chances that small changes would go undocumented
> simply because the "contact person" doesn't remember them. So Linus would
> have two very unpleasant choices: either loosen his control over the
> kernel ("this comes from contact person X, I won't check it"), or wade
> through a 700k patch trying to understand what the hell is in there.
>
> Think about it for a second, and re-read Linus' message: it's not the
> _number_ of patches he is complaining about, but the _size_ of those
> patches, coupled with the insufficient description of what's in the patch.
> Given that's it hard to document aggregate patches, and it's even harder
> for Linus to reject only parts of such an aggregate patch, I don't think
> this is the solution we're looking for.
>
> My $.02 as well.
> Ion
>
> --
> It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool,
> than to open it and remove all doubt.
> :.˛mkabzwmb˛mbz_^nrz
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