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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: about the flood of trivial patches and the Code of Conduct (was:
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 01:32:12PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I propose to send all this stuff though the trivial tree such that maintainers
> > of other subsystems have less workload and newbies (which are supposed
> > to send such patches) know which tree they have to work against.
> > Let's have to well defined and ordered. :-)
> 
> As per the other branch of this tree; an emphatic NO to that. The
> trivial tree is not a backdoor to bypass maintainers. Actual code
> changes do not get to go through any tree but the maintainer tree unless
> explicitly ACKed.

Agreed, I don't want trivial patches to ext4 either (a) polluting my
inbox, or (b) sneaking in behind my back in the trivial tree.

Joe, please just stop the madness.

Thanks,

						- Ted
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