Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761978AbXFRAdT (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:33:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756076AbXFRAdM (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:33:12 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:52593 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756683AbXFRAdL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:33:11 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4675D296.40004@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:32:22 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070609 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Andrew Morton , Adrian Bunk , Michal Piotrowski , Oleg Verych , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel? References: <200706172349.08813.bzolnier@gmail.com> <4675C083.6080409@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <200706180222.55282.bzolnier@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200706180222.55282.bzolnier@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 807 Lines: 18 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > In case of being maintainer "bastard approach" is more about not discouraging > developers by holding patches for too long than about getting credit. The maintainer who is about to suffocate in newly contributed code is actually a lucky guy: He can ask his eager contributors to also help with cross-reviewing and bug fixing, otherwise all the fine work will be stuck in the clogged pipeline. (E.g. post a subsystem todo-list now and then, as a subtle hint.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -==- =--=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/