Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree

Rob Landley
2002-04-20T23:50:35Z

On Friday 19 April 2002 02:27 pm, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> The missing part is watching the mail go by. It's the discourse, where
> has it gone? What happened to the times when patches were actually
> discussed before going into the tree? Can we somehow have that and
> bitkeeper too... and a fairy castle...

I have noticed somewhat less of the "I sent this patch to linus nine times
now and never heard back" kind of discussion. Can't say I miss it. :)

Patches might be going in with less discussion simply because they're going
in more quickly and easily, rather than sitting around for weeks with
everybody second-guessing them simply because Linus didn't notice them until
the fifth resend. If it no longer takes two months to get an otherwise
completed patch into the tree, then yes, there will be less discussion of it
on the list.

There's still plenty of discussion AFTER they go in. And they have been
known to get reverted (and/or "cleaned up" with a weed-whacker)...

Rob