Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:35:11 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: If you want me to quit I will quit |
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > So it's an important part of the process to try to do a good job, and not > > publicizing crap - but it's *equally* important to realize that crap > > happens, and that it's easily *more* distracting to try to clean it up > > after-the-fact than it is to just admit that it happened. > > Fact is, this is the way in which developers want to work. That is their > workflow, and their tools should follow their workflow. If a tool's > behaviour prevents them from implementing their desired workflow, it isn't > the workflow which should be changed ;)
But that was exactly my point. Bugs *will* happen. Follow-up patches *will* happen. Don't fight it. Do the best you can do - there's no way people will ever avoid all bugs to begin with.
And trying to white-wash things later is just pointless and actively *bad*, when others have already seen and merged the original patches.
Linus
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