Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Aug 1999 19:06:08 +0200 | From | Paul Slootman <> | Subject | Re: ISDN and the feature freeze (was: no driver change for 2.4?) |
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On Thu 05 Aug 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > > working. Would you consider me as your sole contact with the ISDN > > developers? > > It needs to be more than one person agreeing, but yes, I'd love to have a > contact person. You need to make the other ISDN developers accept you as > more than just the person who forwards patches to Linus. The problem is > that sometimes I do not like a patch, and then there needs to be some kind > of feedback cycle. It doesn't happen all that often when it comes to
This is being cc'ed into the isdn developers mailing list, so they're following this (I hope :-). I've been able to convince them of a couple of things in the past, so I think that acting as a two-way gateway shouldn't be a problem. In cases anyone needs to contact any or all of the developers for any reason, the i4ldeveloper@listserv.isdn4linux.de list will work.
> In short, the ISDN code in Linux acts as if it was a traditional code > project where the users might as well just have binaries. > > The point of open development is that people see what's going on. You > don't get that if people see just the end result after a year. You want to > have random people just see small updates - because they will often catch > silly mistakes. > > Now, with huge mega-patches, people just go numb. They say "oh, an ISDN > update", and skip it.
True. Point taken.
I'll wait until tomorrow or perhaps this weekend (Karsten Keil, the hisax man, is on vacation and due back this weekend I understand, and I think that as least he should be in on this). At that point I'll contact you offlist to work out details.
Paul Slootman -- home: paul@wurtel.demon.nl http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ debian: paul@debian.org isdn4linux: paul@isdn4linux.de work: paul@murphy.nl Murphy Software, Enschede, NL
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