Subject: Re: New (now current development process)
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2005-11-02 05:04:52 GMT (3 years, 34 weeks, 6 days, 19 hours and 31 minutes ago)
> That's what I was thinking ;) > > The simple fact is that we have more developers doing more stuff faster > than they used to. All within a coupled system which has a lot of > interactions. > > End result: yes, we do all need to spend more time looking at other > people's code and less time looking at our own. That's just life in a > large project. > > I'm very careful to make sure that relevant developers are copied on > patches which go into -mm. In fact there's significantly better review > opportunity on patches which go developer->mm->Linus than there are on > patches which go developer->maintainer-git-≥Linus. Moreover, it's fairly easy to test stuff that's all in one place, in a consistent format, with a simple linear stack of patches to sort through to find culprits. Plus you have a great tendency of dropping stuff like a stone when it's broken, which helps a lot. Having some basic pre-mainline-merge testing keeps the quality of mainline way up. It'd help more if people focused more on testing their own shit before submitting it than complaining about -mm. If it's the same people breaking the tree all the time, I'm sure we can find a recycled set of stocks somewhere. M.