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I agree with Russell, because we now have a pile of shit known as 2.5.X. Noting that 2.4.X is just a little less stinky, but still a rat-hole of bug infested crap that fixes for are being ignored out of total ignorrance. I just wish I could spell. Andre Hedrick CEO/President, LAD Storage Consulting Group Linux ATA Development Linux Disk Certification Project On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 04:33:50PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Tridge wrote the system you describe, several years ago. Its called > > jitterbug but it doesnt help because Linus wont use it> > Speaking as someone who _does_ use a system for tracking patches, I > believe that patch management systems are a right pain in the arse. > > If the quality of patches aren't good, then it throws you into a problem. > You have to provide people with a reason why you discarded their patch, > which provides people with the perfect opportunity to immediately start > bugging you about exactly how to make it better. If you get lots of > such patches, eventually you've got a mailbox of people wanting to know > how to make their patches better.> > I envy Alan, Linus, and Marcelo for having the ability to silently drop > patches and wait for resends. I personally don't believe a patch tracking > system makes life any easier. Yes, it means you can't loose patches, but > it means you can't accidentally loose them on purpose. This, imho, makes > life very much harder.> > I hope this makes some sort of sense 8)> > -- > Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html> > -> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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