Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:37:16 +0100 (CET) | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: The direction linux is taking |
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This is absolutely true - it's a _very_ powerful thing. Old patches > simply grow stale: keeping track of them is not necessarily at all > useful, and can add more work than anything else.
*nod*, until they get scooped up into another tree -ac, -dj, -whatever and fed to you whenever you're in the mood for resyncing.
> This is not about technology. This is about sustainable development. > The most important part to that is the developers themselves - I refuse > to put myself in a situation where _I_ need to scale, because that would > be stupid - people simply do not scale. So I require others to do more > of the work. Think distributed development.
Absolutely. When I decided to take on carrying the 2.4 patches in sync with 2.5, I knew I was undertaking something of no small order. Scooping up forward port patches, and silent-drop bits from l-k is almost a full time job in itself when yourself and Marcelo release kernels in quick succession 8-)
And when you're ready to resync what I've got so far (currently ~3mb), it's going to be another full time job splitting it into bits to feed you linus-bite-sized chunks. (ObSidenote: When this time comes btw, if maintainers of relevant parts want to feed Linus their relevant parts from my tree, that would be appreciated, and would keep _my_ load down :-)
> We've seen this several times in Linux - David, for example, used to > maintain his CVS tree, and he ended up being rather frustrated about > having to then maintain it all and clean up the bad parts because I > didn't want to apply them (and he didn't really want me to) and he > couldn't make people clean up themselves because "once it was in, it was > in".
"Used to" ? cvs @ vger.samba.org was still being maintained before I went on xmas vacation. Did I miss something ?
Dave.
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