Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:40:30 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Release Policy |
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Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> > A minor issue... > > How does Marcelo (or Linus or Alan, say) know that the patch _really_ came from > the subsystem aintainer himself? I mean anybody would have sent any crap, but > not too bad enough to suspect. But if it came with a CC to a list, there is a > much smaller chance of this happenning. > > Yes. This would be very rare and the effects would be very short lived. But > still the _possibility_ exists. >
How about sending a quick reply "got your patch, applied it?" The maintainer can then say "WHAT PATCH?"
-hpa
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