[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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