From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:17:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130729181733.GB31172@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3572404.Lna8dKdTsO@vostro.rjw.lan>
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:27:44PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> That said we have the same issue with commits with just two SOB tags if
> a maintainer applies a patch that nobody has responded to. Are they going to
> be regarded as "suspicious" too now?
>
> And what about trusting maintainers? If Linus trusts them enough to pull from
> them, why can't everybody else trust them enough to assume that they don't do
> bad things on purpose?
Not just Linus -- it's 'turtles all the way down' here. As someone
else suggested, a Singed-off-by in the merge commit should suffice
here. Although, I haven't always made a habit of adding S-o-b to
merge commits either...
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-29 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <alpine.LNX.2.00.1307291230270.18809@pobox.suse.cz>
2013-07-29 13:10 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-29 14:11 ` Jonathan Corbet
2013-07-29 16:31 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-07-29 16:33 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-29 22:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-01 10:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-08-01 17:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
[not found] ` <20130729113526.GB3604@zurbaran>
[not found] ` <20130729130357.GQ29916@titan.lakedaemon.net>
2013-07-29 13:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-29 18:17 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2013-07-29 18:41 ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-29 22:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-31 5:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-31 5:56 ` James Bottomley
2013-07-31 11:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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