From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261254AbUJWQTL (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:19:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261230AbUJWQOL (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:14:11 -0400 Received: from ipcop.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.15]:22963 "EHLO work.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261227AbUJWQM7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:12:59 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:12:53 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paolo Ciarrocchi , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Larry McVoy , akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow Message-ID: <20041023161253.GA17537@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Linus Torvalds , Paolo Ciarrocchi , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Larry McVoy , akpm@osdl.org References: <41752E53.8060103@pobox.com> <20041019153126.GG18939@work.bitmover.com> <41753B99.5090003@pobox.com> <4d8e3fd304101914332979f86a@mail.gmail.com> <20041019213803.GA6994@havoc.gtf.org> <4d8e3fd3041019145469f03527@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:11:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > > > I know I'm pedantic but can we all see the list of bk trees ("patches > > ready for mainstream" and "patches eventually ready for mainstream") > > that we'll be used by Linus ? > > Even _I_ don't have that kind of list. I don't know how you could have that sort of list. We have some idea of the potential size of that list and it's huge. Based on the lease requests back to us (BK is lease based, it connects back to us once a month), we estimate that there well over 10,000 clones of the Linux kernel in BK. If even 1/10th of those are going to have a patch for Linus that's 1,000 potential patches. Pretty hard to keep that all in your head. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com