Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763080AbXHDIFg (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 04:05:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754208AbXHDIFI (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 04:05:08 -0400 Received: from dsl081-085-152.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.85.152]:42660 "EHLO moonbase.phunq.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753093AbXHDIFB (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 04:05:01 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 -- It does not matter whose code gets merged! Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 01:04:28 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Hua Zhong , "'Carlo Florendo'" , "'Roman Zippel'" , "'Linus Torvalds'" , "'jos poortvliet'" , "'Michael Chang'" , "'Kasper Sandberg'" , "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" References: <1185951901.2754.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708040104.28814.phillips@phunq.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1054 Lines: 28 On Thursday 02 August 2007 13:03, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > 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. Amen to that, Frank. Driving off talented contributers is a Very Bad Thing for Linux in the long run. This will not not stop evolutionary progress, but it slows it down and may result in an overly inbred animal. It is especially easy to drive off a contributor whose day job is not Linux hacking. Regards, Daniel - 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/