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

Rob Landley
2002-01-30T00:59:53Z

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 06:13 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On 30 Jan 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Does that answer your questions?
> > Would you look at a patch again?
>
> That answers the specific questions about Al and Stephen.
>
> It does NOT address whether consensus has been reached in general, and
> whether people are happy. Is that the case?

Wouldn't it be nice if somebody could collect this sort of information for
you?

> Also, obviously nobody actually took over maintainership of the patch,
> because equally obviously nobody has been pinging me about it.

I.E. patches get dropped, even when there's intense interest about them, due
to sheer frustration burning out the patch's maintainer, and scaring away
other potential maintainers. (Is this NOT the case? I could be wrong.
Please point out the flaw in my logic...)

> For some
> reason you seem to want _me_ to go out of my way to search for patches
> that are over a month old that I don't know whether they are valid or not,
> used or not, or even agreed upon or not.

I thought I was actually proposing somebody else be formally tasked with the
job of doing that...

> But yes, it's so much easier to blame me.

Maybe just to suggest that you could use a secretary?

> Linus

Rob