he actualy is, but he is more control freak than anything else. one person deciding all about the kernel.. no one knows everything well enough to do it certanly not him..
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On 6 Feb 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > > > > Well, it seems that The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny led Linus to > > BitKeeper... > > > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/06/1341250&mode=thread > > > > I should add that by "CVS" I meant any decent source control system and > BitKeepter seems to fit this description. This is definitely good news. I > don't know what role my post played in Linus' decision, though. > > The point of the mutiny was that people should have abandoned the original > way of maintaining the patches, regardless of Linus' approval. But now > that he uses it himself, there isn't much point in it. It's good to know > Linus is not as senseless and stubborn as I believed he was, originally. > > I discovered other things I don't like about the waythe kernel was > maintained since the original mutiny call, but they are relatively minor > in comparison to using a source control system. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > There is no IGLU Cabal! They had to maintain a codebase the size of the > Linux kernel, and could not use a source control because the project > leader was religiously opposed to it. This caused disorder and confusion, > and nobody thought of starting "The Great IGLU Cabal CVS Mutiny". > > > -- > > Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features yet." > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ > Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Let's suppose you have a table with 2^n cups..." > "Wait a second - is n a natural number?" > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
