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

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Message-Id: <200708040104.28814.phillips@phunq.net>
Date:	Sat, 4 Aug 2007 01:04:28 -0700
From:	Daniel Phillips <phillips@...nq.net>
To:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	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 whose code gets merged!

On Thursday 02 August 2007 13:03, 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.

Amen to that, Frank.  Driving off talented contributers is a Very Bad 
Thing for Linux in the long run.  This will not not stop evolutionary 
progress, but it slows it down and may result in an overly inbred 
animal.

It is especially easy to drive off a contributor whose day job is not 
Linux hacking.

Regards,

Daniel
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