Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:51:51 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: I will _not_ start accepting patches! |
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, David Weinehall wrote:
> > I think rolling it all into one large patch would be a bad thing, who's > > going to oversee integration? Linus. woudl you want to stare at upwards > > of 1 megs of diffs spread across 5 revisions? > > Nope, that would be torture for Linus... At least unless they were neatly > explained and separated into categories & non-interdependant.
OK, agreed. This was a little brainfart on my side. OTOH, all the new code does need to be tested up-front. Preferably before 2.3 is branched...
> And I think that Linus need to participate to stop the meaningless > ideas. After all, if the ideas doesn't pass Linus, it won't get > into the kernel in the first place anyway...
I don't think Linus has time for that. Besides, most subsystem people will know how to handle that as well -- in most cases, Linus shouldn't have to be present in order to have bad ideas taken down...
regards,
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