From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from snark.thyrsus.com (snark.tuxedo.org [207.106.50.26]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B590D482A for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:25:27 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:24:53 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: David Woodhouse Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Tom Rini , Alan Cox , "Albert D. Cahalan" , Matthew Wilcox , james rich , lkml , parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention? Message-ID: <20010420202453.B21392@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com References: <20010420173514.A21392@thyrsus.com> <20010420172435.A21252@thyrsus.com> <6817.987801548@redhat.com> <20010420172435.A21252@thyrsus.com> <7043.987802140@redhat.com> <20010420173514.A21392@thyrsus.com> <7261.987802764@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <7261.987802764@redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:39:24PM +0100 List-ID: David Woodhouse : > esr@thyrsus.com said: > > Even supposing that's so, a 36% rate of broken symbols is way too > > high. It argues that we need to do a thorough housecleaning at least > > once in order to get back to an acceptably low stable rate. > > Accepted. Can we let the 2.4 "angry penguin"-enforced stabilising period > finish, and give the arch and subsystem maintainers a chance to finally > brave the wrath of Linus and submit their patches, before we attempt do to > it though? I guess so. We don't particularly have a choice, do we? :-) -- Eric S. Raymond "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." -- George Washington, in a speech of January 7, 1790