Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759782AbXHBUEV (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:04:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758680AbXHBUEN (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:04:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:39228 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757287AbXHBUEL (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:04:11 -0400 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Hua Zhong , "'Carlo Florendo'" , "'Roman Zippel'" , "'Linus Torvalds'" , "'jos poortvliet'" , "'Michael Chang'" , "'Kasper Sandberg'" , "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 -- It does not matter who's code gets merged! References: <200707282003.45142.jos@mijnkamer.nl> <200707282128.39906.jos@mijnkamer.nl> <46B01E3F.6050401@gmail.com> <005001c7d403$8d7601a0$a86204e0$@com> <1185951901.2754.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: 02 Aug 2007 16:03:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1185951901.2754.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 14 Arjan van de Ven writes: > [...] > It does not matter [whose] code gets merged. > What matters is that the problem gets solved and that the Linux kernel > innovates forward. > [...] This attitude has risks over the long term, if outsiders with fresh ideas are discouraged. Risking becoming known to defer too much to established maintainers, those fresh ideas may stop coming to linux. - FChE - 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/