Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Accountability | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:48:59 +1000 | From | Colin McCormack <> |
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> On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:58:02AM +1000, Colin McCormack wrote: >> Although I am not the author of the work in question, if it was me, I'd be >> looking for some reasoned feedback as to why it's not in the kernel already, >> otherwise I'd become rapidly disenchanted, discouraged and demotivated. > >> I doubt that's good for Linux. >>
> I think your taking this a little too far. Things don't just magically > appear in the kernel. The author needs to submit it in a suitable fashion > for inclusion.
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:
1) We know it can't be a .bz file, because http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9908_05/msg00250.html
2) We know that it can't be picked from a CVS archive, or packaged as a release from an archive, because http://kt.linuxcare.com/kt19990819_31.html#9
3) We know that it can't be sent any time in the next two weeks, because http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9909_02/msg00460.html
I just don't see much there to do with the stability, cleanliness and solidity criteria Alan mentioned a couple of posts back. In fact, these reasons have nothing to do with why people use Linux, and an N-year delay in a minor patch is a pretty clear sign that something's awry.
I'm reminded of when Andrew Tanenbaum discouraged Bruce Evans and me from working on a multi-threaded file system for Minix because it'd reduce the pedagogic value of Minix.
We know what happened then.
> So the answer might be as simple as "The author never tried > to get it included", have you even asked the author about this and does > s/he even _want_ it in the kernel?
Yes, I asked. Yes, the author has posted patches. He's probably too polite.
Colin.
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