Re: BK kernel workflow

Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-24T10:24:45Z

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:12:53 -0700, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
> 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.

Well, I'm not interested in having the list of all the bk trees used
during the develpoment of a release.
I was looking to the trees used by mantainers.
That number should me really different from "1,000".
Do you agree ?

CIao,
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