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

Jeff Garzik
2002-12-18T17:56:03Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
>>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.
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> I heartily disagree with the approval process for development, just
> because it gets so much in the way and just annoys people. But for
> stabilization, that's exactly what you want. So I think gcc is using the
> approval process much too much, but apparently it works for them.

gcc's approval process looks a lot like the Linux approval process.
Dave's description of rth's work sounds a lot like the Linus Role in
Linux... with the exception I guess that there are multiple peer Linii
in gcc, and they read every patch <runs for cover> More seriously, gcc
appears to be "post the patch to gcc-patches, hope someone applies it"
which is a lot more like Linux than some think :)

Jeff