Re: [LTP] Review Required: [Re: [PATCH] fix mail02, 03 fail due to different sender names]

Garrett Cooper
2011-02-24T18:37:23Z

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Shubham Goyal
<shubham@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Alright Garrett..., so how should we take the patches in userland arena in
> future (including this one from Caspar)?
> I mean should they be reviewed and merged upstream? Do LSB currently
> involved in maintaining them?

(this is going to seem like a bit of a rant, so please bear with me...)

I don't know if the LSB actually has a test suite, but they should
really get into the business of producing a test suite, because the
LSB is mocked (in some circles) for being an excuse for a standards
committee.

FreeBSD devs (for sure) and many Linux devs know that there isn't a
lot of decision making that goes into making Linux consistent across
all platforms. Someone needs to herd all of the cats together and
provide a means of testing standardization for these things (again,
LSB) because then the quality element will properly trickle down in
the GNU/Linux community.

Right now everything's too ad hoc and messy for anyone depending on
behavior to actually depend on Linux to remain constant over an
extended period of time. That's one reason why (apart from GPL
licensing) that people stay away from Linux: it's consistently
inconsistent.

Thanks,
-Garrett