Re: Accountability

George (greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:22:05 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Colin McCormack wrote:

>> > I don't think I was implicitly relying upon magic to get it into the kernel.
>> > Let's look at what `suitable fashion' might mean, in this context:
>>
>> A suitable fashion means someone submits it to Linus and promises to maintain
>> it and fix it.
>
>Is this documented somewhere?

linux/MAINTAINERS

>Another lesson from history is the gcc/egcs development. I'd say Linux's in
>the balance now, but if I were intimately involved with the kernel, I'd be
>open-sourcing it as quickly as possible.

And it isn't open-source currently? That's the idea of the MAINTAINERS
file at least, division of labor and a nice flow of patches in.

-George Greer

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