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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:39:02 +0600
From: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@gnu.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Release Policy
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:32:18PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 
> > Such updates really only need to go through his "stupid filter"
> > when it is coming from the maintainer, but it does add up and
> > take up time.
> 
> Obviously.  If it's for a maintained subsystem:
> 
> a) if it's from the subsystem maintainer, sanity-check it.
> b) if it's not, dump it or reject with the appropriate notice.

A minor issue...

How does Marcelo (or Linus or Alan, say) know that the patch _really_ came from
the subsystem aintainer himself?  I mean anybody would have sent any crap, but
not too bad enough to suspect.  But if it came with a CC to a list, there is a
much smaller chance of this happenning.

Yes.  This would be very rare and the effects would be very short lived.  But
still the _possibility_ exists.

Cheers,

Anuradha

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