Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

Willy Tarreau
2008-04-30T22:46:46Z

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 03:31:22PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> > > 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?
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> Do you want me to stop merging your code?
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> Do you think anybody else does?
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> 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.

Willy