Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:09:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:09:35 -0500 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:22184 "EHLO bitmover.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:09:15 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 14:09:14 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Oliver Xymoron Cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking Message-ID: <20011229140914.B13883@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Oliver Xymoron , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20011229120451.E19306@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from oxymoron@waste.org on Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:30:36PM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:30:36PM -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > Nonsense. X is a release. At a minimum, a submitted patch should apply to > the current globally visible kernel release. If you want your patch to > go in, it has to be current, otherwise no use bothering the > maintainer. And it ought to compile. OK, so this glorious patchbot is going to make sure that a patch patches cleanly against a known version and compiles. And that buys me exactly what? Not a heck of a lot. Especially since, as is obvious, if you send in stuff that doesn't compile consistently, your patches are likely to go to the back of the line or just get dropped. > The purpose of the patchbot is to bounce patches that don't > apply/compile/meet whatever baseline before Maintainer ever has to look at > them, thus reducing the 'black hole effect' of the overloaded maintainer. I'd suggest you go try this idea out. It's funny how often people suggest that they are going to make the problems go away, it's always this same proposal, typically nobody does any work, when they do it doesn't get used, could it be there is a reason for that? I'm prepared to be wrong, but I don't hear the maintainers asking for this patchbot. Why not? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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/