Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:51:42 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:40:39 -0700 (PDT)
> IOW, I argue that the high speed of merging very much is a big part of > what gives us quality in the end. It may result in bugs along the way, but > it also results in fixes, and lots of people looking at the result (and > looking at it in *context*, not just as a patch flying around).
This is a huge burdon to put on people.
The more broken stuff you merge, the more people are forced to track these problems down so that they can get their own work done.
It punishes people who do put forth the effort to let new changes cook properly, before pushing, and thus avoid putting turds into the tree.
You really have to think about the ramifications of this system.
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