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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>,
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Subject: Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:19:17 -0500
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On Wednesday 06 February 2002 10:17 am, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> > The long-range plan, and the real payoff, comes if main developers start
> > using bk too, which should make syncing a lot easier. That will take some
> > time, I suspect.
>
> Do you think that at some point, using BitKeeper will become mandatory
> for subsystem maintainers?  ("mandatory" in the sense that
> non-BitKeeper input is dealt with in a less timely fashion, for
> example.)

The hierarchy seems to be two levels deep now.  Linus doesn't accept patches 
from all 300 maintainers anyway, he has a group of a dozen or so lieutenants. 
 (Andre Hedrick has to send code to Jens Axboe, for example, before Linus 
will take it.)

Being a lieutenant would have to require bitkeeper before simply being a 
maintainer would.  I doubt it would ever work its way to simple developers 
submitting to maintainers.

(This is, of course, just my take on things...)

Rob
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