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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Juha Siltala <juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net>
Cc: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jussi Silvonen <jussi.silvonen@helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Past CREDITS files
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 10:55:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6684.1002362117@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011005192748.15cbd9bf.juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011005192748.15cbd9bf.juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net>  <20011005103822.21d1f663.juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net> <200110051435.f95EZrvw027128@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>


juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net said:
>  This is something I'd be interested in as well. When did Linus start
> to give out the maintenance of certain parts of the kernel to others?
> Does this coincide with the famous "Linus doesn't scale" debate that
> Glyn Moody describes as the moment Linux almost forked? And was this
> very difficult?

Individual filesystems/drivers/subsystems/architectures/protocols have had
their own maintainers for years - but those maintainers still have to submit
patches, repeatedly if needs be, to Linus for final approval.

--
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-06  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-05  7:38 Fw: Re: Past CREDITS files Juha Siltala
2001-10-05  8:48 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-05 14:35 ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-05 16:27   ` Juha Siltala
2001-10-06  9:55   ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-10-05 14:56 ` Dave Jones

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