From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Lo1aR-0001AM-3r for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:26:31 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lo1aP-0001AD-Nd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:26:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lo1aP-0001A1-9S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:26:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47734 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lo1aP-00019y-36 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:26:29 -0400 Received: from [74.93.104.97] (port=33137 helo=sunset.davemloft.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lo1aO-0000cX-Oe for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:26:28 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sunset.davemloft.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A25AC8C0DE; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090329.132617.78993132.davem@davemloft.net> To: grub-devel@gnu.org, chaac@nic.fi From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <49CF763F.2040305@nic.fi> References: <20090329.044017.240977477.davem@davemloft.net> <200903292155.34578.okuji@enbug.org> <49CF763F.2040305@nic.fi> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:26:30 -0000 From: Vesa J=E4=E4skel=E4inen Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:23:11 +0300 > Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Sunday 29 March 2009 20:40:17 David Miller wrote: > >> Everybody is too busy to give this project the attention and time = it > >> deserves to be maintained properly. > >> > >> I honestly do not think the situation will change significantly un= til > >> someone is able to devote real time as a maintainer and process al= l of > >> the patches that get submitted each day. > > = > > This is ideal but not absolutely required. If you look at some popu= lar = > > projects, such as Linux and Firefox, you can find out that not all = (actually, = > > very few) patches are handled so quickly, but those projects are fu= nctioning = > > so well. > = > For both of those projects there are people that are paid to do that > work either directly or indirectly. How it internally affects, I don'= t > know. I'm just as active applying Linux networking patches now as a paid employee of a Linux company as when I was just someone doing it for fun. It's not such a difference, really.