linux-kernel - Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:53:00 +0200
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>,
	"Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" <Vincent.Fortier1@...gc.ca>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

Linus,

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:01:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > The goal is to get all patches for a maintained subsystem submitted to 
> > Linus by the maintainer.

Nice quote. I'm trying to make proposition/convince Adrian, who is in
opposition, but whole thread gets just like obeying his extreme POV...

> But quite frankly, anybody who aims for "perfect" without taking reality 
> into account is just not realistic. And if that's part of the goal of some 
> "new process", then I'm not even interested in listening to people discuss 
> it.

I'm proposing kind of smart tracking, summarized before. I'm not an
idealist, doing manual work. Making tools -- is what i've picked up from
one of your mails. Thus hope of having more opinions on that.

> If this plan cannot take reality into account, please stop Cc'ing me. I'm 
> simply not interested.

This one is last at least from me. Sorry for taking you time.
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