Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

Andrew Morton
2008-04-30T22:53:44Z

On Thu, 1 May 2008 00:46:10 +0200
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 03:31:22PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >
> > > > And there's no way to avoid the fact that during the merge window, we will
> > > > get something on the order of ten thousand commits (eg 2.6.24->25-rc1 was
> > > > 9629 commits).
> > >
> > > Well, do we _have_ _to_ take that much? I know we _can_, but is this really
> > > necessary?
> >
> > Do you want me to stop merging your code?
> >
> > Do you think anybody else does?
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to convince people that their code is not worth
> > merging?
>
> I think you're approaching a solution Linus. If developers take a refusal
> as a punishment, maybe you can use that for trees which have too many
> unresolved regressions. This would be really unfair to subsystem maintainers
> which themselves merge a lot of work, but recursively they may apply the
> same principle to their own developers, so that everybody knows that it's
> not worth working on next code past a point where too many regressions are
> reported.
>

Well. If we were good enough at tracking bug reports and regressions we
could look at the status of subsytem X and say "no new features for you".

That would be a drastic step even if we had the information to do it (which
we don't).

It would certainly put the pigeon amongst the cats tho.