Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:04:52 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: New (now current development process) |
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> That's what I was thinking ;) > > The simple fact is that we have more developers doing more stuff faster > than they used to. All within a coupled system which has a lot of > interactions. > > End result: yes, we do all need to spend more time looking at other > people's code and less time looking at our own. That's just life in a > large project. > > I'm very careful to make sure that relevant developers are copied on > patches which go into -mm. In fact there's significantly better review > opportunity on patches which go developer->mm->Linus than there are on > patches which go developer->maintainer-git->Linus.
Moreover, it's fairly easy to test stuff that's all in one place, in a consistent format, with a simple linear stack of patches to sort through to find culprits.
Plus you have a great tendency of dropping stuff like a stone when it's broken, which helps a lot. Having some basic pre-mainline-merge testing keeps the quality of mainline way up.
It'd help more if people focused more on testing their own shit before submitting it than complaining about -mm. If it's the same people breaking the tree all the time, I'm sure we can find a recycled set of stocks somewhere.
M.
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