Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:37:58 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: More fuel to the fire [Linus' aesthetic DOES scale!] |
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Not that that maintainers are stupid, but that they just do things >> that "work", and that they don't think about the implications >> enough. At least he used to, but it didn't seem to have much >> effect. However, it does work though: R. Gooch gave Linus a patch >> that Linus actually liked by THINKING about it for while first :) > >Then maybe it would make sense to make a new rule stating >that patches should be submitted by at least 2 developers. > >No, I don't mean two mails, but I mean two names signing >the mail with the patch. That way Linux might be shielded >from a lot of stuff that just isn't beautiful or scalable >enough.
Signed howso? With PGP?
So I write what I consider a cool patch, and since I solely developed it, and am a relative nobody to kernel development currently, my patch goes unseen because I don't have a "buddy" core developer? Sounds elitist to me...
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