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    SubjectRe: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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    On January 29, 2002 02:19 pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
    > So the kernel maintainership becomes a network of maintainers. Then
    > we only have to understand the routing protocols. Currently the
    > routing tables appear to have Linus as the default route. As there
    > are currently kernel subsystems that do not have a real maintainer, it
    > may reasonable to have a misc maintainer. Who looks after the
    > orphaned code, rejects/ignores patches for code that does have
    > active maintainers, and looks for people to be maintainers of the
    > orphaned code.
    >
    > The key is having enough human to human protocol that there is someone
    > besides Linus you can send your code to. Or at least when there isn't
    > people are looking for someone.
    >
    > Free Software obtains a lot of it's value by many people scratching an
    > itch and fixing a little bug, or adding a little feature, sending the
    > code off and then they go off to something else. We need to have the
    > maintainer routing protocol clear enough, and the maintainer coverage
    > good enough so we can accumulate most of the bug fixes from the fly by
    > night hackers.
    >
    > So does anyone have any good ideas about how to build up routing
    > tables? And almost more importantly how to make certain we have good
    > maintainer coverage over the entire kernel?

    Yes, we should cc our patches to a patchbot:

    patches-2.5@kernel.org -> goes to linus
    patches-2.4@kernel.org -> goes to marcello
    patches-usb@kernel.org -> goes to gregkh, regardless of 2.4/2.5
    etc.

    The vast sea of eyeballs will do the rest. A web interface would be a nice
    bonus, but 'patch sent and seen to be sent, to whom, when, what, why' is the
    essential ingredient.

    --
    Daniel
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