From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
"La Monte H.P. Yarroll" <piggy@timesys.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:16:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040528171659.GA19715@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040528171110.GA21435@thunk.org>
> A compromise position might be to store multiple authorships (who
> committed it into BK, who was the original author, etc.) into the SCM
> metadata, but I'm not sure we could justify your putting that kind
> feature into BK, especially when it's likely that the only users of it
> would be the Linux kernel tree.
We're always open to adding new features but we're not going to code around
delibrate misuse of the system. We wouldn't be doing you any favors by
doing so. If you ever migrate off of BK then you'll need the next system
to have those same workarounds.
Go educate Linus that he got this one wrong, he's a reasonable guy, he
listens if enough people scream.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-28 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-27 6:20 [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission Larry McVoy
2004-05-27 8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-27 14:51 ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-27 15:18 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 16:13 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-27 21:09 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-27 21:46 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-05-28 13:24 ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-28 15:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-05-28 15:19 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-28 15:27 ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-28 15:35 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-28 17:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-05-28 17:16 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2004-05-28 15:24 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] <A6974D8E5F98D511BB910002A50A6647615FD265@hdsmsx403.hd.intel.com>
2004-06-03 6:38 ` Len Brown
[not found] <20040525110000.27463.19462.Mailman@lists.us.dell.com>
2004-05-25 15:03 ` Justin Michael
[not found] <1ZBgK-68x-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-25 6:43 ` Kai Henningsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-24 23:05 Albert Cahalan
2004-05-25 3:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 19:28 ` Horst von Brand
[not found] <1YUY7-6fF-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-24 19:57 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-24 20:07 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-24 20:19 ` Joe Perches
2004-05-24 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 21:16 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-24 21:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 0:41 ` Francis J. A. Pinteric
2004-05-25 1:56 ` viro
2004-05-24 20:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 22:01 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-24 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 20:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-05-24 21:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 21:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-06-10 8:00 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-25 3:49 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-25 4:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 11:11 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-05-25 13:48 ` Steven Cole
2004-05-25 14:12 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-24 21:19 ` Horst von Brand
2004-05-23 23:19 Shane Shrybman
2004-05-23 6:46 Linus Torvalds
2004-05-23 7:41 ` Neil Brown
2004-05-23 8:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23 15:25 ` Greg KH
2004-05-23 15:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23 15:42 ` Greg KH
2004-05-23 18:03 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-23 15:38 ` Ian Stirling
2004-05-23 15:44 ` Greg KH
2004-05-23 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-23 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-23 16:33 ` Horst von Brand
2004-05-23 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-23 17:32 ` Roman Zippel
2004-05-23 17:55 ` Joe Perches
2004-05-23 19:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-23 19:12 ` Joe Perches
2004-05-23 21:41 ` Francois Romieu
2004-05-23 19:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-23 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 15:20 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-25 21:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-05-25 6:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-05-25 18:11 ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-25 7:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-25 15:32 ` Steven Cole
2004-05-25 16:02 ` Bradley Hook
2004-05-25 18:51 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-25 19:44 ` Bradley Hook
2004-05-26 4:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-05-25 13:11 ` Ben Collins
2004-05-25 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 17:18 ` Ben Collins
2004-05-25 18:02 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-25 18:06 ` Ben Collins
2004-05-25 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 15:00 ` raven
2004-05-25 15:44 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-25 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 16:43 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-25 17:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-25 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 16:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-05-25 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 18:08 ` Andy Isaacson
2004-05-25 20:10 ` Matt Mackall
2004-06-10 12:58 ` Pavel Machek
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