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

Dave Jones
2002-12-18T16:51:35Z

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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