From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751419AbWGXSq7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:46:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751421AbWGXSq6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:46:58 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:45024 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751419AbWGXSq6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:46:58 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, with we do not fancy Message-ID: References: <200607241857.38889.a1426z@gawab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1153766790 1286 127.0.0.1 (24 Jul 2006 18:46:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:46:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <200607241857.38889.a1426z@gawab.com> By author: Al Boldi In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Respect what? The process or the content? > > Rejecting content due to disrespect for process guidelines would be rather > sad. > No, it's not. That's what you have to do to keep the kernel maintainable. > If the content is worth its salt, it should be accepted w/o delay, then > modified to comply with the process guidelines as necessary. It's what the > GPL allows, afterall. Uhm, no. That's basically "throw it over the fence and let someone else fix the crap." Fix it first, then it can go in. -hpa