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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:05:42 +0100
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On January 30, 2002 10:21 am, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > 	Frankly, the only real issue in that thread was that we _do_ need
> > a tree specifically for small fixes.  Preferably - quickly getting merged
> > into the main tree.
> 
> A "small stuff" maintainer may indeed be a good idea. The maintainer could
> be the same as somebody who does bigger stuff too, but they should be
> clearly different things - trivial one-liners that do not add anything
> new, only fix obvious stuff (to the point where nobody even needs to think
> about it - if I'd start getting any even halfway questionable patches from
> the "small stuff" maintainer, it wouldn't work).

But that's exactly what Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo[1] does, has been doing for 
more than a year, surely you've noticed?  On top of being the nicest guy in 
the world, as far as I can tell.

[1] Most of us call him <acme>.

-- 
Daniel
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