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SubjectRe: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23
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On Thursday 26 July 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> you dont _have to_ cooperative with the maintainer, but it's certainly
> >> useful to work with good maintainers, if your goal is to improve Linux.
> >> Or if for some reason communication is not working out fine then grow
> >> into the job and replace the maintainer by doing a better job.
> >
> > The idea of growing into the job and replacing the maintainer by proving
> > the you are doing better job was viable few years ago but may not be
> > feasible today.
>
> IMO... Tejun is an excellent counter-example. He showed up as an

IMO this doesn't qualify as a counter-example here et all unless
you are trying to say that Tejun does your job much better and that
we should just replace you. ;)

> independent developer, put a bunch of his own spare time and energy into
> the codebase, and is probably libata's main engineer (in terms of code
> output) today. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I think the Linux
> community would be quite happy with him as the libata maintainer.

Fully agreed on this part.

> > The another problem is that sometimes it seems that independent developers
> > has to go through more hops than entreprise ones and it is really frustrating
> > experience for them. There is no conspiracy here - it is only the natural
> > mechanism of trusting more in the code of people who you are working with more.
>
> I think Tejun is a counter-example here too :) Everyone's experience is
> different, but from my perspective, Tejun "appeared out of nowhere"
> producing good code, and so, it got merged rapidly.

Tejun (like any of other developers) spent some time in-the-making
and this time was in large part spent in the IDE-land, and yes I'm also
very glad of the effects. :)

Thanks,
Bart
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