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

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Date:	02 Aug 2007 16:03:40 -0400
From:	fche@...hat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>,
	"'Carlo Florendo'" <subscribermail@...il.com>,
	"'Roman Zippel'" <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"'Linus Torvalds'" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"'jos poortvliet'" <jos@...nkamer.nl>,
	"'Michael Chang'" <thenewme91@...il.com>,
	"'Kasper Sandberg'" <lkml@...anurb.dk>,
	"'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 -- It does not matter who's code gets merged!


Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> 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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