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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:47:53 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:40:50PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
 > 
 > No you merely aren't watching. Most of the maintainers btw are ignoring 2.5
 > if you do some asking. And a measurable number of the listed maintainer
 > addresses just bounce.
 
 That's something that should really be fixed.
 I believe a while back someone was going to send a ping to all
 the listed addresses in MAINTAINERS. Doing this again may not
 be a bad idea.

 > There never will be maintainers proper for large amounts of stuff, and the
 > longer Linus deletes and ignores everything from someone new the less people
 > will bother sending to him. Just look at the size of the diff set between all
 > the vendor kernels and Linus 2.4.x trees before the giant -ac merge.

 Now that we have an open development branch again, perhaps its
 time for a lot of the things that have been proven stable in vendor
 kernels for a long time to get a looksee in mainline.
 Some things I feel will likely still be vendor-kernel only for some time.
 And some of them, rightly so.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
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