Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:00:25 +0100 (BST) | From | Peter Horton <> | Subject | Re: Patch submission |
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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 tmuller@agora.rdrop.com wrote: > > > Finally, I think that patch submittal needs to go through a series > > of peer revisions and that Linus should only accept patches through > > these peer channels. I'm not saying how this should be implimented, > > only that it SHOULD be implimented. > > We already do. I for one am in the Linux MM group, I > do 'our' homepage and give info on what we're busy > with etc... Most of our technical discussions are > handled on our own mailing list. > > The same thing goes for the other subsystem teams, > but even after that, there are still too many > patches for a single person to both handle and > remain in a sane and healthy state. > > And then there are the 'rouge' hackers who'll just > code something up and mailbomb Linus with their > patches, but I suspect those can be dealt with > rather quickly... >
I thought this was open development. How come anyone who is not on a 'subsystem team' (is that a Microsoft construct?) is now a rogue (sp) hacker? ;-)
--- pdh@colonel-panic.com pdh@berserk.demon.co.uk http://www.berserk.demon.co.uk
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