Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

Alan Cox
2007-08-01T12:25:06Z

> has to get the blessing of the maintainer. On the other hand,
> as you just said, the maintainer has no such obligation.

Umm nope. As a maintainer if you feed Linus stuff you wrote that he
thinks is a bad idea it will not go in, and you'll get an explanation of
why.

The process isn't perfect (eg removing half-vanished maintainers isnt
handled well) but it isn't as you claim.