Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 04:49:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 04:48:51 -0500 Received: from fc.capaccess.org ([151.200.199.53]:18697 "EHLO fc.Capaccess.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 04:48:30 -0500 Message-id: Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 04:47:30 -0500 Subject: www.kernel.org/hierarchy To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Rick A. Hohensee" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Welcome to www.kernel.org/hierarchy www.kernel.org/hierarchy/index.html is by Linus. It looks like this... Send Linux kernel patches to the best fit you can find for what you patch is about in the web pages starting here... area contact ....... ............... .................... ext2 Ted T'so VFS Al the Virile linux/kernel/ Linus Torvalds Ingo Molnar not 2.5 Alan Cox . David Wienhall . . . or whatever the map in the mind of the Unit Penguin looks like. Each area links to another page. Linus sets up the permissions to edit that page to the people he affiliates with that area. He emails them thier passwords. All 10-20 of them. This causes them to have analagous authority over the people and subpages they assign/create. buttons are LAAETTR (left as an excercise...). Down that road lies CVS. The perms aspect is recursive root on a webserver, also LAAETTR. (that's actually where a human patch penguin comes in, probably.) Another handy thing would be for the page to deadman-ping "maintainers" roughly monthly, and trim the dead ones. It is also, in contradiction to what the Unit Penguin says, strictly militaristically hierarchical, as far as perms. It probably won't stay a true tree, but... But it's just about where to send patches if you're not a Single-Digit Penguin. The US military is a 5-branch tree. The Romans used a 10-branch tree. The wonders of the Internet and his manifest genius seem to enable Torvalds to better the Romans by about 1.5. Caesar gone hexadecimal. Oh well, politics are unavoidable. The page itself can be dynamic. It can also become a MAINTAINERS directory in the sources, at about the same size as MAINTAINERS, with a lynx -dump or a wget or something in Linus's pack-it-all-up script. Torvalds talks about his cliq^H^H^H^H main advisors in terms of trust. Who trusts the trunk of the tree might benefit from better documentation. The Internet won't eliminate hierarchies. Just documenting them is plenty. Rick Hohensee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/