Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:49:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3.1415] Documentation: add documentation summary for rc-series and merge window |
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes: > > > In fact, this whole discussion has shown one thing: people still think > > that "bug fix" somehow automatically means that it's appropriate after the > > merge window. That's simply not so. > > That's why i wrote: gain vs risk.
People really don't seem to be very good at the risk management part. They see the gain, they don't think about the risk.
Note: not all maintainers are bad about this. But it tends to be my biggest gripe after around -rc3 or so - people send stuff that is good, but that really has no real reason not to be delayed.
And as long as people talk about this in terms of "bugs", it's a problem.
It would be much better to talk about it in terms of "Does this _really_ have to hit the next release? Honestly? Even though we're supposed to be in the calming-down period?"
Linus
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