Re: Accountability

George (greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:25:51 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Colin McCormack wrote:

>>>>A suitable fashion means someone submits it to Linus and promises to
>maintain
>>>> it and fix it.
>>>
>>> Is this documented somewhere?
>>
>> 5 years of tradition
>
>I take that to mean `no'.

I take that to mean you haven't read linux-kernel.

>Good input filtering? I've never seen anyone be told `no' because their
>patches were too large (in fact, as far as I can see, large slabs of egcs
>are farmed out to largely independent groups, as has effectively happened
>with ISDN under Linux), nor because one of the developers' machines
>doesn't have bz2.

Input filtering isn't by size, it's content.

>Additionally, coins don't get stuck on `no' for things like GGI.

They seem to be doing just fine.

You have that air of contemptuousness about your posts...

-George Greer

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