linux-kernel - Re: If you want me to quit I will quit

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804261333200.2813@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:35:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit



On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > So it's an important part of the process to try to do a good job, and not 
> > publicizing crap - but it's *equally* important to realize that crap 
> > happens, and that it's easily *more* distracting to try to clean it up 
> > after-the-fact than it is to just admit that it happened.
> 
> Fact is, this is the way in which developers want to work.  That is their
> workflow, and their tools should follow their workflow.  If a tool's
> behaviour prevents them from implementing their desired workflow, it isn't
> the workflow which should be changed ;)

But that was exactly my point. Bugs *will* happen. Follow-up patches 
*will* happen. Don't fight it. Do the best you can do - there's no way 
people will ever avoid all bugs to begin with. 

And trying to white-wash things later is just pointless and actively 
*bad*, when others have already seen and merged the original patches.

			Linus
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