Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:24:42 +0200 | From | Paolo Ciarrocchi <> | Subject | Re: BK kernel workflow |
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:12:53 -0700, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:11:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > > I know I'm pedantic but can we all see the list of bk trees ("patches > > > ready for mainstream" and "patches eventually ready for mainstream") > > > that we'll be used by Linus ? > > > > Even _I_ don't have that kind of list. > > I don't know how you could have that sort of list. We have some idea > of the potential size of that list and it's huge. Based on the lease > requests back to us (BK is lease based, it connects back to us once a > month), we estimate that there well over 10,000 clones of the Linux kernel > in BK. If even 1/10th of those are going to have a patch for Linus that's > 1,000 potential patches. Pretty hard to keep that all in your head.
Well, I'm not interested in having the list of all the bk trees used during the develpoment of a release. I was looking to the trees used by mantainers. That number should me really different from "1,000". Do you agree ?
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