Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Dec 2001 15:01:52 -0500 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: The direction linux is taking |
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:37:49AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > One way to quantify this is to ask Linus, Alan, Marcelo, et al, how much > time they spend merging, i.e., how often do they get patch rejects? > Regardless of the answer, it will be interesting. If it is a lot, > then the patchbot idea has marginal usefulness. If it is none at all, > then that says development is serialized, which means we may be leaving > a lot of progress on the floor.
I personally think the merging is distributed, and done by each subsystem maintainer. When that doesn't happen, and the merge is non-trivial, we often see a message by Linus essentially saying "your patch is cool, but it conflicts with another patch by <foo> that does <bar>, so I've done a new pre with <foo>'s patch, could you merge and rediff against it?".
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