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

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Message-Id: <1186085138.2728.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:05:38 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
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!

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:03 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 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.

My concern is that only "get my line of code merged" is seen as "the
ultimate thing". It's more than that. Linux is about collaboration,
where it matters more that people work together to solve a problem, far
far more than who actually types the lines in on the keyboard. Working
on the problem should be seen (and recognized) as the right thing. Who
writes the code is secundary to that.

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