Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:21:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:21:11 -0500 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:33174 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:20:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:20:57 -0500 From: Legacy Fishtank To: Dave Jones Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking Message-ID: <20011227162057.C23942@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from davej@suse.de on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:37:16PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:37:16PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > We've seen this several times in Linux - David, for example, used to > > maintain his CVS tree, and he ended up being rather frustrated about > > having to then maintain it all and clean up the bad parts because I > > didn't want to apply them (and he didn't really want me to) and he > > couldn't make people clean up themselves because "once it was in, it was > > in". > > "Used to" ? cvs @ vger.samba.org was still being maintained before > I went on xmas vacation. Did I miss something ? Kinda-sorta... vger cvs is maintained by DaveM and current, but one catches holy hell from Dave if the non-DaveM patches in vger are not merged into the Linus/Marcelo trees rapidly ;-) So in that way vger cvs is not really a branch but a staging area for the official tree. Jeff - 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/