Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261375AbVCFLZf (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 06:25:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261376AbVCFLZf (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 06:25:35 -0500 Received: from rgminet04.oracle.com ([148.87.122.33]:33601 "EHLO rgminet04.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261375AbVCFLZ3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 06:25:29 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 03:20:07 -0800 From: Joel Becker To: Greg KH Cc: Chris Wright , torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree Message-ID: <20050306112007.GR27331@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Greg KH , Chris Wright , torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050304222146.GA1686@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050304222146.GA1686@kroah.com> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1044 Lines: 29 On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:21:46PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Anything else anyone can think of? Any objections to any of these? Well, Linus's rules regarding signoff are good as well. I'd suggest, once there is a set of $sucker-evaluators, we could use a good rule like requiring 5 folks to signoff (Linus's original proposal), or 3 including the subsystem maintainer (who doesn't have to be part of $sucker-evaluators) - whichever comes first. Any patch that affects an area where it isn't easy to determine who is the authorative maintainer just has to wait for the full 5 person signoff. Joel -- "Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years." - Bob Brown Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - 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/