Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:30:29 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans |
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On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:13:03 +0100 jos poortvliet <jos@mijnkamer.nl> wrote:
> Nick's comment, replying to me some time ago:
I think I was thinking of this:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/509
> Is there > something fundamentally wrong with the kernel-hackers-culture, or are these > incidents?
Well yes, there are incidents. We have too many coders and not enough reviewers, testers and bug-fixers.
If I had two solid days to sit down and carefully review, test, try-to-exploit and if necessary improve/fix this code then perhaps we'd get there. But I'm nowhere vaguely near being able to afford that time and things are just sitting there.
I have an email sitting in my drafts folder stating that I'll no longer accept any features unless they've been publically reviewed in detail and run-time tested by a third party. The idea being to force people to spend more time reviewing and testing each other's stuff and less time writing new stuff. Maybe on a sufficiently gloomy day I'll actually send it.
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