Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 01:03:14 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:47:46AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Instead of doing this stuff half-assed, just convince Linus to use BK :) > > Jeff
It might be good if I (and others who are interested) worked on a document describing the work flow that has been discussed here, in particular the sort of network of people that Linus mentioned and Dave showed in his ascii art. That document would be a useful thing to hand to newbies regardless of whether BK or any other CVS is in the picture because it would describe how things work today, more or less.
It is also useful as a stake in the ground which says that any CVS which wants to be considered in this problem space has to solve that work flow, or come pretty darn close. If BK can do it, that would be good, that's why we built it. If it can't, you still get a useful doc describing how things work and we can go back and try and fix BK.
If you think this is a good idea and you are one of the 20-30 maintainers close to the center of the network, let me know. If anyone wants to work on this or just watch the progress, I can have a mailing list set up tomorrow. If there is interest in the doc, I think I could have something with nice pictures and text in a week. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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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