Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-19T16:58:17Z

On 07/18/2013 11:03 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>
>> Ie. It's a *very good* barrier against maintainers sliding into
>> sloppyness. Really, it works. At least with me.
>>
>> It's easy to take things a bit too much for granted, especially when you
>> maintain your own little corner of the world.
>
> Agreed! Though I must confess that I have shifted from being mostly
> worried about people yelling at me to being mostly worried about my own
> code yelling at me. Either way, I do find that being worried about some
> consequence or another does help me get a better result.
>

Yes. Linus' little rant from last weekend has had me and the other tip
maintainers look at process changes and new tooling, which we probably
should have done a while ago... but it just got way too buried on the
list of priorities.

-hpa