Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Jeff Garzik
2002-01-30T08:29:43Z

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:57:02AM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On 30 January 2002 00:46, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:51:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > > > - cleanliness
> > > > - concept
> > > > - timing
> > > > - testing
> > >
> > > IIRC, the number 33 referred to esr's Configure.help patch. Which of
> > > these did he violate?
> >
> > Timing. Linus was busy focusing on the block layer.
>
> Sounds alarming. Linus didn't take documentation updates from designated
> maintainer? For many months? I can't believe in argument that updates were
> able to break _anything_, it's only documentation, right? I could understand
> this if these updates were sent by little known person, but Eric?!
>
> Clearly a scalability problem here :-)

Oh-my-lord. Please re-read this thread, and especially Linus's
2.5.3-pre5 changelog announcement.

Configure.help needed to be split up. Eric?! was told this repeatedly,
but he did not listen. Hopefully he will listen to feedback regarding
CML2... He has even been told repeatedly that he does not
listen to feedback ;-)

Jeff, chuckling