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Message-Id: <1219199116.26429.19.camel@jdub.homelinux.org> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:15 -0400 From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, marcel@...tmann.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:21 -0700, David Miller wrote: > But it doesn't fix the time delegation problem. > > There is always this "oh crap, I just spent 3 months doing nothing > but fixing bugs" feeling a lot of us core folks get right before > the merge window opens up. > > So instead of getting the best work from the best people we have, > we get this last minute flurry of development in the days leading > up to the merge window openning up. So, not to add fuel to a fire that seems to be calming down, but what is so wrong with having that feeling? If the core people are spending 3 months doing nothing but fixing bugs, the I consider that to _be_ the best work from the best people. Bugs happen and it's not really worth debating over how they got into the tree to begin with because it happens in a number of different ways. However, if it takes 3 months of bug fixing to get a tree in shape then I don't see how that's a problem at all. Personally, I'd rather take a relatively bug free tree over new shiny features on top of a buggy as hell tree. Call me old fashioned. josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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