Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261577AbUJXSjk (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:39:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261579AbUJXSjk (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:39:40 -0400 Received: from mout2.freenet.de ([194.97.50.155]:44673 "EHLO mout2.freenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261577AbUJXSji (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:39:38 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:39:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <41752E53.8060103@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Paolo Ciarrocchi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410242039.25407.mbuesch@freenet.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1487 Lines: 36 Quoting Linus Torvalds : > > 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. What do kernel developers think about svk? (Yes, it's not mature, yet.) I mean the svk concept. Does it also suck for kernel development? > 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 Michael. - 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/