Re: The direction linux is taking

Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-27T21:21:20Z

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:37:16PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > We've seen this several times in Linux - David, for example, used to
> > maintain his CVS tree, and he ended up being rather frustrated about
> > having to then maintain it all and clean up the bad parts because I
> > didn't want to apply them (and he didn't really want me to) and he
> > couldn't make people clean up themselves because "once it was in, it was
> > in".
>
> "Used to" ? cvs @ vger.samba.org was still being maintained before
> I went on xmas vacation. Did I miss something ?

Kinda-sorta...

vger cvs is maintained by DaveM and current, but one catches holy hell
from Dave if the non-DaveM patches in vger are not merged into the
Linus/Marcelo trees rapidly ;-) So in that way vger cvs is not really a
branch but a staging area for the official tree.

Jeff