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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:23:43 +0100
From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@jazzfree.com>
To: Jordan Mendelson <jordy@napster.com>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:46:55AM -0800, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
> Having one person who looks after patches is just going to create 
> another bottleneck. The real problem is not Linus not accepting patches, 
> but the process by which the patches are sent to him and the general 
> impatience of the developer community.

Which in turn is quite natural when the developer community sees valuable
obvious patches not applied for no reason at all.  Linus, would you accept
some modifications to your MUA so that keys besides deleting the patch(es)
mail canned messages to the submitters?
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