From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH v3.1415] Documentation: add documentation summary for rc-series and merge window Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20090622222217.GH23972@bombadil.infradead.org> <20090623130602.6cd6b713@chukar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jake Edge , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Pavel Machek , Greg KH , "corbet-T1hC0tSOHrs@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org" , "alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org" , "linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "tshibata-zZGIbrA41Td8UrSeD/g0lQ@public.gmane.org" To: Krzysztof Halasa Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > In fact, this whole discussion has shown one thing: people still think > > that "bug fix" somehow automatically means that it's appropriate after the > > merge window. That's simply not so. > > That's why i wrote: gain vs risk. People really don't seem to be very good at the risk management part. They see the gain, they don't think about the risk. Note: not all maintainers are bad about this. But it tends to be my biggest gripe after around -rc3 or so - people send stuff that is good, but that really has no real reason not to be delayed. And as long as people talk about this in terms of "bugs", it's a problem. It would be much better to talk about it in terms of "Does this _really_ have to hit the next release? Honestly? Even though we're supposed to be in the calming-down period?" Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html