Am 21.10.2013 11:55, schrieb Tanstaafl: > On 2013-10-20 9:14 PM, Mark David Dumlao <madum...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Linus isnt actually actively developing the kernel nowadays. Mostly he >> just merges commits from his "trusted lieutenants" in charge of various >> subsystems. The notion of Linus as being at the helm is mostly just a >> convenient fiction that corporate culture (and by extension, the media) >> - which is used to "strong leadership" - uses to make sense of open >> source development. > > I know all that, but he does have the final word on merges still, > right? Which is the most important aspect of the point at hand... > > . >
and when he goes in, he chooses the most trickiest parts of the kernel (vfs). Just go to any lkml archive and search for his threads with Al Viro. Scary.
