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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
>>The approval process does seem to be quite a lot of work though.
>>I think it was rth last year at OLS who told me that at that time
>>he'd been doing more approving of other peoples stuff than coding himself.
> 
> 
> I heartily disagree with the approval process for development, just
> because it gets so much in the way and just annoys people. But for
> stabilization, that's exactly what you want. So I think gcc is using the
> approval process much too much, but apparently it works for them.


gcc's approval process looks a lot like the Linux approval process. 
Dave's description of rth's work sounds a lot like the Linus Role in 
Linux...  with the exception I guess that there are multiple peer Linii 
in gcc, and they read every patch <runs for cover>  More seriously, gcc 
appears to be "post the patch to gcc-patches, hope someone applies it" 
which is a lot more like Linux than some think :)

	Jeff



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