Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:17:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:15:50 -0400 Received: from panic.tn.gatech.edu ([130.207.137.62]:21413 "HELO gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:15:20 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:15:19 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: Daniel Phillips Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree Message-ID: <20020421141519.E8142@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20020421101731.D10525@work.bitmover.com> <20020421135529.A8142@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:13:48PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Sunday 21 April 2002 19:55, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:48:44PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > On Sunday 21 April 2002 19:22, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > > How much less convenient is it to click on a link? So much harder that it's > > > > > worth pissing off some key developers? > > > > > > Linus has already explained why he put it into the kernel sources. > > > > > So far the only argument I've seen is: it's convenient. Did I miss something? > > > The convenience argument is bogus. A url is just as convenient, > > > > If you say this, then you either missed, or are willfully ignoring, > > what Linus said. Search for the string "helsinki.fi". > > Linus said: > > > As to why the docs are in the kernel sources rather than on any web-sites: > > it's simply because I don't even _have_ a web page of my own (I've long > > since forgotten the password to my old helsinki.fi account ;), > > Larry has offered to host it, so Linus's argument is answered. These are docs-about-Linus, not docs-about-Larry. Do you propose to move SubmittingPatches and all info related to CVS, to Larry's web site? If not... (see the last line of Linus's first response in this thread) Jeff - 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/