Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:28:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:28:00 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-039-128.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.39.128]:907 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:27:59 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Larry McVoy Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:27:58 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Linus Torvalds , Anton Altaparmakov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To:

<20020420105125.B29646@work.bitmover.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 20 April 2002 19:51, Larry McVoy wrote: > If you dump the licensing discussion and think about how BK could help > you, you can see we are half to an improvement over the "mail to the > list" model. The problem I had with the "mail to the list" model was > that it was easy to miss something and then not realized that you > had missed it. True, but it also seemed to create a certain energy that now seems to be slipping away. Maybe this is just called 'maturity', I don't know. Now, my original objection was *only* to the inclusion of the Bitkeeper documentation in the kernel tree. A well-known developer who has chosen to stay out of the discussion - perhaps by reason of being asleep - used the term 'bitkeeper mafia'. That's not a good sign. At this juncture, a little moderation, as you've shown, could do a lot to mitigate that perception. Then it would be back to the usual programming: how to make it all better. > Now a lot of that stuff is ending up on bkbits.net > and if there was a way to say "tell me everything that is there but > not here", that would be a distinct improvement, it means that the > "mail" is archived and you can find it when you want it. The missing part is watching the mail go by. It's the discourse, where has it gone? What happened to the times when patches were actually discussed before going into the tree? Can we somehow have that and bitkeeper too... and a fairy castle... -- Daniel - 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/