Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:48:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Patch submission |
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Peter Horton wrote:
> > And then there are the 'rouge' hackers who'll just > > code something up and mailbomb Linus with their > > patches, but I suspect those can be dealt with > > rather quickly... > > I thought this was open development. How come anyone who is not on a > 'subsystem team' (is that a Microsoft construct?) is now a rogue (sp) > hacker? ;-)
If you first post your patch to this list and let other folks test and test and comment on it, that isn't any problem.
The thing I meant was people sending their code to Linus without first having it tested by other folks. Untested code like that can put a load on Linus.
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