Re: Freezing.. (was Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance)

[Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:49:37AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > >  > What happened to "feature freeze"?
 > > *bites lip* it's fairly low impact *duck*.
 > However, it's a fair question.

Indeed. Were you merging something like preempt at this stage, I'd be wondering
if you'd broken out the eggnog a little too soon.

 > I just don't know what that "something" should be. Any ideas? I thought
 > about the code freeze require buy-in from three of four people (me, Alan,
 > Dave and Andrew come to mind) for a patch to go in, but that's probably
 > too draconian for now. Or is it (maybe start with "needs approval by two"
 > and switch it to three when going into code freeze)?

You'd likely need an odd number of folks in this cabal^Winner circle
though, or would you just do it and be damned if you got an equal
number of 'aye's and 'nay's ? 8-)

Other than that, it reminds me of the way the gcc folks work, with a
number of people reviewing patches before acceptance [not that this
doesn't happen on l-k already], and at least 1 approval from someone
prepared to approve submissions.

The approval process does seem to be quite a lot of work though.
I think it was rth last year at OLS who told me that at that time
he'd been doing more approving of other peoples stuff than coding himself.

		Dave

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