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SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI pieces for the merge window
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, James Bottomley wrote:
> >
> > OK, so it's no secret that I'm the last of the subsystem maintainers
> > whose day job isn't working on the linux kernel. If you want a full
> > time person, who did you have in mind?
>
> Quite frankly, at least for me personally, what I would rather have (in
> general: this is really not at all SCSI-specific in any way, shape, or
> form, and not directed at James!) is a less rigid maintainership
> structure.
>
> Let's face it, we are *all* likely to be overworked at different times,
> and even when not overworked, it's just the fact that people need to take
> a breather etc. And there is seldom - if ever - a very strong argument for
> having one person per subsystem.

Am OK with all of that, but with a rider. It would make my life even more
miserable if there was a (say) git-scsi-tweedledee and a
git-scsi-tweedledum. We already have too much out-of-scope code turning up
in the git trees and having two trees explicitly modifying the same
subsystem would hurt. It's also bad from an engineering POV: there's a
decent chance that when combined, they just won't work.

So Tweedledee and Tweedledum should both commit to the same tree, please.
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