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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:07:00 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Andre Hedrick, Eric Raymond, Rik van Riel, Michael Elizabeth
> > Chastain, Axel Boldt...
>
> NONE of those are in the ten-twenty people group.
>
> How many people do you think fits in a small group? Hint. It sure
> isn't all 300 on the maintainers list.

That's fine with me, but _who_ do I send VM patches to if
I can't send them to you ?

There is no maintainer for mm/* or kernel/*, it's just you.

I agree it would be nice to have somebody from within the
ten-twenty people group take care of that, but we'll need
to have _somebody_ ...

regards,

Rik
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