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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> I think you are not following the proper procedure. All the patches >> should go through akpm. Ok. I thought it was fine to send simple and obviously correct bug fixes to Linus. > One issue is that I actually worry that Andrew will at some point be where > I was a couple of years ago - overworked and stressed out by just tons and > tons of patches. > > Yes, he's written/modified tons of patch-tracking tools, and the git > merging hopefully avoids some of the pressures, but it still worries me. > If Andrew burns out, we'll all suffer hugely. > > I'm wondering what we can do to offset those kinds of issues. I _do_ like > having -mm as a staging area and catching some problems there, so going > through andrew is wonderful in that sense, but it has downsides. It is especially challenging for people like me who typically work on parts of the kernel without a maintainer. So there frequently isn't an intermediate I can submit my patches to. Eric - 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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