Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 -- It does not matter who's code gets merged!

From: Frank Ch. Eigler
Date: Thu Aug 02 2007 - 16:04:22 EST



Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...]
> It does not matter [whose] code gets merged.
> What matters is that the problem gets solved and that the Linux kernel
> innovates forward.
> [...]

This attitude has risks over the long term, if outsiders with fresh
ideas are discouraged. Risking becoming known to defer too much to
established maintainers, those fresh ideas may stop coming to linux.

- FChE
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