Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:01:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:01:34 -0500 Received: from dsl-213-023-039-026.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.39.26]:15368 "EHLO starship.berlin") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:01:20 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Richard Gooch , Alan Cox Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 05:03:18 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King), riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel), dana.lacoste@peregrine.com (Dana Lacoste), linuz_kernel_q@hotmail.com ('Eyal Sohya'), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200112271738.fBRHcSd30844@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <200112271759.fBRHxtH31437@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> In-Reply-To: <200112271759.fBRHxtH31437@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Richard, On December 27, 2001 06:59 pm, Richard Gooch wrote: > But years of observations tells me that Linus likes the way he does > things and doesn't care if others don't like it. I don't expect to see > much change there. Except that, at the kernel summit this year, Linus *did* give the nod to a patchbot, in principle. I could have sworn. It seems clear that the challenge is to come up with something that really is so lightweight and useful that Linus will use it. That's the 'Linus test'. If somebody hands him a piece of crap to use then why would we expect him to deviate from his normal behaviour ;-) -- 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/