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

Matthew D. Pitts
2002-01-30T12:45:58Z

Chris,

Thank you for saying this... I have things I would like do/add to the kernel
and I am not sure who to send them to.

Also, is there presently a maintainer for Supermount? If not, I would be
willing to pick it up for 2.5.x, as it is one of the things I want to work
on.

Matthew D. Pitts

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Ricker" <kaboom@gatech.edu>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "World Domination Now!" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > It might not be a bad idea to just make that "mention maintainer at the
> > top of the file" the common case.
>
> You snipped the part I was actually interested in. Let me try again.
>
> We're agreed that the files themselves are the best indicator of where to
> route patches, and that MAINTAINERS isn't useful for much besides deciding
> who should get IPO offers ;-). What I'm wondering is where I, as someone
> who is listed in some of the Documentation/* stuff as its maintainer,
should
> be sending patches. You want a hierarchy, and I think that's perfectly
> reasonable, but I have no idea who the layer of the hierarchy between me
and
> you is....
>
> later,
> chris
>
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