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On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:35:20AM -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > I think you are not following the proper procedure. All the patches > > should go through akpm. > > 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. > Morever bugme.osdl.org is severely underworked (acpi being a noteable exception) and Andrew has stepped in alot there too. Alot of bugs reported on the mailing list are only followed up by Andrew. I think he really should receive much more help than he currently does. - 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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