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SubjectRe: Patch submission
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.

Rik.
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