From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:55:47 +0300
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Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> On 18/06/07, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > On Sunday 17 June 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > We of course do want to minimise the amount of overhead for each
> > > > developer. I'm a strong believer in specialisation: rather than
> > > > requiring that *every* developer/maintainer integrate new steps in
> > > > their processes it would be better to allow them to proceed in a
> > > > close-to-usual fashion and to provide for a specialist person (or
> > > > team) to do the sorts of things which you're thinking about.
> > >
> > > Makes sense... however we need to educate each and every developer
> > > about importance of the code review and proper recognition of
> > > reviewers.
> >
> > That's as easy to manage as is currently done with rc-regressions.
>
> Are you a volunteer?

Probably not, as this task requires a real PRO!

> It's not an easy task, there are more patches than regressions.

I didn't say it was an easy task, and it probably involves a lot of stamina.

But the management aspect looks rather straight forward, yet rewarding.


Thanks!

--
Al

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