Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:27:38 -0700 (MST) | From | Chris Ricker <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> They are both maintainers. That doesn't mean that I necessarily work with > every maintainer directly. > > Or look at USB: I get the USB patches from Greg, and he gets them from > various different people. Johannes Erdfelt is the maintainer for uhci.c, > and he sends them to Greg, not to me. > > Why? Because having hundreds of people emailing me _obviously_ doesn't > scale. Never has, never will. It may work over short timeperiods wih lots > of energy, but it obviously isn't a stable setup.
Linus,
That's fine, but there's a major problem with your scheme. What happens with all the stuff for which no one is listed in MAINTAINERS? For example, no one owns linux/Documentation. As the person nominally in charge of linux/Documentation/Changes, there's no one between me and you, period, let alone anyone between me and you that you trust.... And I realize that you don't consider documentation very important, but there are other segments of the Linux source tree for which this breakdown in hierarchy is also true....
later, chris
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