Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:15:22 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel inclusion policy, meta desicion making structure? |
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On 06/06/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote: > Tim Post wrote on 2007-06-04: > > I was wondering if a meta version of the decision making process that > > would be employed to determine if a new contribution does or does not go > > into the main stream Linux kernel. > [...] > > Does some document exist that shows the decision making process so that > > I can easily answer the ultimate question of "Why not" for myself? > > There is documentation on how submissions should look like.
Some starting points:
Documentation/HOWTO Documentation/SubmittingDrivers Documentation/SubmittingPatches Documentation/SubmitChecklist Documentation/ManagementStyle
> Other than > that, these are case-by-case decisions based on a number of factors. > Perhaps you should look up discussions on merge requests (accepted as > well as rejected ones) in archives or better at sources like LWN.net. >
Good LKML archives to search :
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel http://lkml.org/
Sometimes good summaries of discussions / decision making processes can also be found at http://kerneltrap.org/
You can also search the ChangeLog messages for different patches easily via git-web: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=summary
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