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SubjectRe: Linus is on a powertrip..


On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> in the absence of any official, publicly visible patch queue with your
> annotations on it.
>
> I think it would help matters all around if there were a web page somewhere
> listing pending patches and even as little as a one-line comment from you
> as to where they are in the integration process. It might even help you
> organize your own work better.

This sounds extremely simple and very plausible. At least to have a
visible patch queue on the web, ftp, or whatever else.

The best way to do this that I can think of at the moment would be
to have a mailing address where patches are sent that is then converted into
a simple web page that lists email address the patch originated, any line
that has 'DESC:' at the beginning of it, and a link to either the actual
email or just the patch itself.

This email address could also receive linux-kernel mailings and do
the same thing w/ emails from that list that include patches.

This email address could also CC: Linus everything it receives so
that even if this was not a plausible way for Linus to traditionally receive
patches others could use it to see what people have submitted, and perhaps
Linus could check it to see if some things didn't make it to him.

This could also promote wider testing of new patches before they hit
the mainstream, and in fact digests of the list could be sent out to those
that request it.

I'm fully aware that linux-kernel already does many of these things,
but I suspect not all patches are cc:'ed to linux-kernel, and not all patches
submitted to linux-kernel are intended to be incorporated into the actual
kernel, so it might be best to keep these two seperate.

If there is alot of backing for this I'd be willing to put forth the
effort to set up this system, unfortunately due to my limited bandwidth I
would not be able to host it however.


Stephen


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