Re: BK kernel workflow

Linus Torvalds
2004-10-24T17:49:24Z

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> So BK helps this model, because the distributed nature of BK means that
> you can have several pseudo-official trees _and_ totally unofficial
> ones, and merging is automatic and basically impossible to avoid, so
> the "official" tree never gets to drown out the unofficial work. But
> despite that, I want to make people _aware_ that maintainership does
> not imply total ownership, and that we don't have a "hierarchy" of
> developers but a *network* of developers.

Btw, I've tried in the past to express why I think the BK model is so
good, and why CVS ans Subversion totally suck, and I think the previous
email perhaps explains it best.

It really is a very important conceptual thing, that "network" vs
"hierarchy" difference. And I know we all love bashing Larry, but give
the guy a pat on the back for really making that difference visible.

[ Larry removed from the cc, because he's got ego enough as it is ;]

Linus