Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:35:34 +0200 | | From | Olivier Galibert <> | | Subject | Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion |
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 06:30:23AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > (I mean geez, if you want really high standards before new code is > accepted, take a look at Open Solaris; they have *such* a heavyweight > process, with two mandatory signoffs by core Solaris engineers who > both have to do a line-by-line review, and with a promise of on-disk > and ABI compatibility *forever* ---- that we do more commits in a week > than they do in a year....)
That sounds almost like gcc, only worse.
I think there is something of a problem currently, tough. It is getting too hard to get code in if you're not a maintainer for an existing subsystem (reiser4, suspend2...), and too easy when you're a maintainer (ext4, uswsusp...). Ext patches don't get reviewed much outside of the developpers, and they go in pretty much without discussion in any case, except when Linus blows a fuse. Reiser4 would have be in without discussion if it had been a set of patches through time to reiser3, and would have been called 4 only when Linus yelled. I suspect some balancing would be useful.
OG.
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