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Message-ID: <20130729181733.GB31172@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:17:34 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development
process
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:27:44PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> That said we have the same issue with commits with just two SOB tags if
> a maintainer applies a patch that nobody has responded to. Are they going to
> be regarded as "suspicious" too now?
>
> And what about trusting maintainers? If Linus trusts them enough to pull from
> them, why can't everybody else trust them enough to assume that they don't do
> bad things on purpose?
Not just Linus -- it's 'turtles all the way down' here. As someone
else suggested, a Singed-off-by in the merge commit should suffice
here. Although, I haven't always made a habit of adding S-o-b to
merge commits either...
John
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