Re: If you want me to quit I will quit
From: Stefan Richter
Date: Sat Apr 26 2008 - 15:43:43 EST
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Stefan Richter wrote:
Well, the need to amend single patches --- and folding the amendment in before
mainline submission to correct important problems of the first shot --- is
something which happens all the time.
.. and you simply SHOULD NOT PUBLICIZE the tree before it has gotten to a
reasonable point.
I always aim for keeping the one subsystem git tree which I maintain in
reasonable shape. Including its -mm and -next feeding branches.
Keep the rough-and-not-ready thing that is being discussed as patches on
lkml as your own working tree, and just don't expose it as a public git
branch. You can't do any sane discussion over git anyway - if things are
being actively worked-on among people, you'd be passing patches around as
emails etc.
Sometimes I want problem reporters to test more than a single patch. In
these cases, I refer them to patch kits and quilt queues which I
maintain independently of linux1394-2.6.git; I almost never ask testers
to try linux1394-2.6.git.
linux1394-2.6.git has been, and still is, first and foremost my
submission branch to -mm. And I have high expectations of what I submit
to -mm. But sometimes something turns out to be a bad idea after all
_long after_ I and the reviewers and testers thought it would be fine.
Besides, the care that I take with my submissions to -mm also does not
change the fact that I submit in different order to you than to -mm.
(As mentioned, reordering could be done to some degree with a respective
number of branches. I don't do it this way currently.)
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Stefan Richter
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