Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261447AbUJaA2M (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:28:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261448AbUJaA2M (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:28:12 -0400 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:44183 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261447AbUJaA16 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:27:58 -0400 Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow From: Robert Love To: Larry McVoy Cc: Adrian Bunk , Xavier Bestel , James Bruce , Linus Torvalds , Roman Zippel , Andrea Arcangeli , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <20041030234619.GB24640@work.bitmover.com> References: <4180B9E9.3070801@andrew.cmu.edu> <20041028135348.GA18099@work.bitmover.com> <1098972379.3109.24.camel@gonzales> <20041028151004.GA3934@work.bitmover.com> <20041028195947.GD3207@stusta.de> <20041028213534.GA29335@work.bitmover.com> <20041030065111.GF4374@stusta.de> <20041030234619.GB24640@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:28:32 -0400 Message-Id: <1099182512.6034.147.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1491 Lines: 30 On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 16:46 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > If there are reasonable people out there who feel this way then let's > figure out some sort of public contract or something that makes it clear > that we have no designs on the Linux kernel. That's just wacko but if > a lot of people think that then lets fix that. By the way, with all > due respect, Andrea & Roman are not "reasonable" people in this context. > Let's find some reasonable people who are not BK users and make sure they > are comfortable with what is going on. Alan Cox, Al Viro, who else? > I don't really care if it is non-BK users, BK users, or a combination, > I just care that there is some sanity in the discussion. I am a non-BK user[1]. And I see this as a total non-issue. Robert Love [1] While I am no fan of the license, the real reason I don't use BK is because I don't think it currently makes sense for developers who are not also maintainers. BK really shines when you have people above (Linus, Andrew) and below (other developers) you. E.g., it makes sense for Greg K-H. Not so much for me or, say, Ingo. It is the push-pull relationship where BK shines. Your comment that you were looking at improving workloads like Andrew's interests me. - 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/