Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261567AbUJXRtY (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:49:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261565AbUJXRtY (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:49:24 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:54695 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261570AbUJXRtF (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:49:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:48:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Paolo Ciarrocchi cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <41752E53.8060103@pobox.com> <20041019153126.GG18939@work.bitmover.com> <41753B99.5090003@pobox.com> <4d8e3fd304101914332979f86a@mail.gmail.com> <20041019213803.GA6994@havoc.gtf.org> <4d8e3fd3041019145469f03527@mail.gmail.com> <20041023161253.GA17537@work.bitmover.com> <4d8e3fd304102403241e5a69a5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1251 Lines: 28 On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So BK helps this model, because the distributed nature of BK means that > you can have several pseudo-official trees _and_ totally unofficial > ones, and merging is automatic and basically impossible to avoid, so > the "official" tree never gets to drown out the unofficial work. But > despite that, I want to make people _aware_ that maintainership does > not imply total ownership, and that we don't have a "hierarchy" of > developers but a *network* of developers. Btw, I've tried in the past to express why I think the BK model is so good, and why CVS ans Subversion totally suck, and I think the previous email perhaps explains it best. It really is a very important conceptual thing, that "network" vs "hierarchy" difference. And I know we all love bashing Larry, but give the guy a pat on the back for really making that difference visible. [ Larry removed from the cc, because he's got ego enough as it is ;] Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/