linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI pieces for the merge window

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Message-Id: <20071024120914.180682a6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:09:14 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI pieces for the merge window

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, James Bottomley wrote:
> > 
> > OK, so it's no secret that I'm the last of the subsystem maintainers
> > whose day job isn't working on the linux kernel.  If you want a full
> > time person, who did you have in mind?
> 
> Quite frankly, at least for me personally, what I would rather have (in 
> general: this is really not at all SCSI-specific in any way, shape, or 
> form, and not directed at James!) is a less rigid maintainership 
> structure.
> 
> Let's face it, we are *all* likely to be overworked at different times, 
> and even when not overworked, it's just the fact that people need to take 
> a breather etc. And there is seldom - if ever - a very strong argument for 
> having one person per subsystem.

Am OK with all of that, but with a rider.  It would make my life even more
miserable if there was a (say) git-scsi-tweedledee and a
git-scsi-tweedledum.  We already have too much out-of-scope code turning up
in the git trees and having two trees explicitly modifying the same
subsystem would hurt.  It's also bad from an engineering POV: there's a
decent chance that when combined, they just won't work.

So Tweedledee and Tweedledum should both commit to the same tree, please.
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