Re: BK kernel workflow

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>    So BK helps this model, because the distributed nature of BK means that 
>    you can have several pseudo-official trees _and_ totally unofficial
>    ones, and merging is automatic and basically impossible to avoid, so 
>    the "official" tree never gets to drown out the unofficial work. But 
>    despite that, I want to make people _aware_ that maintainership does
>    not imply total ownership, and that we don't have a "hierarchy" of 
>    developers but a *network* of developers.

Btw, I've tried in the past to express why I think the BK model is so
good, and why CVS ans Subversion totally suck, and I think the previous
email perhaps explains it best.

It really is a very important conceptual thing, that "network" vs 
"hierarchy" difference.  And I know we all love bashing Larry, but give 
the guy a pat on the back for really making that difference visible.

[ Larry removed from the cc, because he's got ego enough as it is ;]

		Linus
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