[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] stable trees and pushy maintainers; cgroups interface; hid; depth of maintainers tree

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at rjwysocki.net
Mon Jul 8 23:39:52 UTC 2013


On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:22:45 AM Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 08-07-13 23:44:14, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > (4) Is our tree too flat? This is rather a question to Linus than really a 
> >     proper discussion topic.
> > 
> >     It seems to me like there are many places where we are violating a 
> >     natural tree-like hierarchy our development model has, with many 
> >     people sending pull requests directly to Linus instead of going 
> >     through sub-maintainers.
> >     Is this really a problem? If so, how to deal with it?
>   I guess fs/ is one of areas about which you speak. Each fs sends pull
> request to Linus separately while I could imagine there would be maintainer
> pulling all filesystem trees and then sending Linus a pull request. But
> I don't think Al is really keen on this kind of "integration work" and so
> far there weren't that many conflicts that would need resolving. So sending
> pull requests directly to Linus worked OK.

Well, as long as there are not too many conflicts, that works just fine.

Rafael


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