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Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:15 -0400
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On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:21 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> But it doesn't fix the time delegation problem.
> 
> There is always this "oh crap, I just spent 3 months doing nothing
> but fixing bugs" feeling a lot of us core folks get right before
> the merge window opens up.
> 
> So instead of getting the best work from the best people we have,
> we get this last minute flurry of development in the days leading
> up to the merge window openning up.

So, not to add fuel to a fire that seems to be calming down, but what is
so wrong with having that feeling?  If the core people are spending 3
months doing nothing but fixing bugs, the I consider that to _be_ the
best work from the best people.

Bugs happen and it's not really worth debating over how they got into
the tree to begin with because it happens in a number of different ways.
However, if it takes 3 months of bug fixing to get a tree in shape then
I don't see how that's a problem at all.  Personally, I'd rather take a
relatively bug free tree over new shiny features on top of a buggy as
hell tree.

Call me old fashioned.

josh

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