Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:05:42 +0100 |
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On January 30, 2002 10:21 am, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > Frankly, the only real issue in that thread was that we _do_ need > > a tree specifically for small fixes. Preferably - quickly getting merged > > into the main tree. > > A "small stuff" maintainer may indeed be a good idea. The maintainer could > be the same as somebody who does bigger stuff too, but they should be > clearly different things - trivial one-liners that do not add anything > new, only fix obvious stuff (to the point where nobody even needs to think > about it - if I'd start getting any even halfway questionable patches from > the "small stuff" maintainer, it wouldn't work).
But that's exactly what Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo[1] does, has been doing for more than a year, surely you've noticed? On top of being the nicest guy in the world, as far as I can tell.
[1] Most of us call him <acme>.
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