From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/SendingPatches [2 of 2].
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:18:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306111618.10329.rob@landley.net> (raw)
The bit about log rolling.
--- linux-new/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2003-06-11 15:54:29.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-new/Documentation/SubmittingPatches2 2003-06-11 15:54:06.000000000 -0400
@@ -92,6 +92,16 @@
complete, that is OK. Simply note "this patch depends on patch X"
in your patch description.
+In politics, there's a concept called "log rolling", where unrelated
+amendments are bundled together so that changes people want grease the
+way for changes they don't. Do not do this. It's annoying.
+
+In coding, this sort of thing can be very subtle, such as performance increases
+that help your new version perform as well as the original while doing more
+work, but which could also have been applied to the original making it even
+faster. The linux-kernel guys are very good at taking the chocolate coating
+and leaving the pill behind. This can be very frustrating to developers, but
+it's one of the big reasons open source produces such excellent results.
4) Select e-mail destination.
next reply other threads:[~2003-06-11 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-11 20:18 Rob Landley [this message]
2003-06-11 20:41 ` [PATCH] Documentation/SendingPatches [2 of 2] Eli Carter
2003-06-11 21:27 ` Rob Landley
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