Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:05:18 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, adobriyan@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-mm2: alpha broken
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:10:54AM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Adrian wrote:
> > This is the amout of testing I can afford.
> 
> It sounds to me like you are saying that a minute of your time is
> more valuable than a minute of each of several other peoples time.
> 
> The only two people I gladly accept that argument from are Linus
> and Andrew.
> 
> For the rest of us, it is important to minimize the total workload
> of all us combined, not to optimize our individual output.
> 
> What you don't test, several others of us get to test.  Only its often
> more work, for -each- of us, as we each have to figure out which of
> 1000 patches caused the breakage.

I'm working against -mm, and there it's quite common that the kernel 
doesn't build on the majority of architectures due to one or two dozen 
bugs other people introduced.

I didn't know people consider the quality of my patches so under-average 
that they want to require me to fix other people's compile errors first 
and test the compilation on all 24 architectures before I'm allowed to 
submit a patch that touches some architecture-independend code.

cu
Adrian

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