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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:32:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Alan, could you delegate any of this work?  Is it feasible to
> > have you redirect some portion of the patch analysis and acceptance
> > load to another person, other than Linus?  Obviously, if the rate
>
> To be honest I get very little patch material I didnt want to track. I get
> lots of patches that are wrong, misguided, or otherwise flawed. However
> I want to see those patches so I can help get them fixed.

Obviously, there's huge value to the development community to get your
feedback on these flawed patches, as well.  It strengthens the entire
community.

> On the whole people seem to be fairly good at sending stuff to obvious
> maintainers. Sometimes I bounce a few on. Big global changes to vm/vfs I tend
> to ignore because those kind of things tend to be stuff Linus cares a lot
> about getting right anyway.

Yeah.  I sort of figured you'd shout if something really wasn't working.

Thanks Alan,

	Miles


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