linux-kernel - Re: If you want me to quit I will quit

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Date:	Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:49:24 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Often it takes quite a long time for problems to become apparent.  Across a
> month or two we end up with things like:
[...]
> that's two patches, each with three followon fixes.  Very common.
> 
> Fact is, this is the way in which developers want to work.  That is their
> workflow, and their tools should follow their workflow.  If a tool's
> behaviour prevents them from implementing their desired workflow, it isn't
> the workflow which should be changed ;)

Well, some of the questions here, notably
   - when to fold patch + amendment patch into a single patch
   - when to publish things to whom
are actually about the workflow, not about the tool.

(And it's good to learn of other people's expectations about it.)
-- 
Stefan Richter
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