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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I wouldn't say that bugmeister is a fulltime job, but it'll be a > lot-of-time job. It needs someone who isn't shy and who has a good > understanding of the kernel code-wise, of the processes (hah) and of the > people. > > The ability to maintain an overall view of where we're at, which bugs are > serious and which aren't. The ability to succinctly communicate that > overview to everyone else. Able to tell Linus "you can't release a kernel > until bugs A, B and C are fixed". The skills and gut-feel to know when a > patch is some once-off which can be ignored unless it reoccurs, etc. It's > one of those things which can consume as much effort as one is able to put > into it. I recognize this description: sorry, Andrew, can we please clone you? Hugh - 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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