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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:51:30 -0600
From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
Organization: Inet Technologies, Inc.
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To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>,
        esr@thyrsus.com
Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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Rob Landley wrote:
> Patch Penguin Proposal.

Ok, I mailed Rob privately in support of this; now I'm saying it
publicly: I support this. (And I thought it well written.)

I've submitted small patches for things as I have gotten the chance.  I
submitted those to Alan because they were small fixes.  He gave feedback
(Thanks Alan!) and I tried to fix things better.  He took care of
feeding Linus--something I'm not in a possition to do.
I believe we need a patch-penguin or something similar.  Linus wants
subsystem maintainers... maybe make an official bugfix-maintainer? 
Whoever it is needs to be officially recognized by Linus and probably
featured on /. or something so people who create those 3-4 line patches
that fix a bug that bit them will know not to mail Linus.

(Returning to the shadows where I belong... ;) )

Eli
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