Am 13.03.2012 um 02:39 schrieb Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws>:
> On 03/12/2012 08:23 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> >> Let's take a real world example from Linux here. 3.3-rc5 had a pretty nasty >> compile bug that made the build break on any 32 bit target when autofs was >> activated. I posted the bug plus a small bugfix upstream. > > We have a different model than Linux. The development tree is only open for > a short period of time followed by RCs. > > Our development tree is open for a long time. There isn't as great a sense > of urgency to fix things out-of-band when you're talking about an active > development cycle. If we were in -rc, it'd be a completely different > discussion. > > Really, the issue here is communication. The default assumption is that a > subsystem is owned by the subsystem maintainer. If you want a patch to go > through another channel, just say so. It happens constantly. It's very > normal for people to ask me to apply a patch directly instead of doing a PULL > request. > > But honestly, if we made a habit of cherry picking patches in areas with an > active maintainer, we would now be talking about how we don't respect > subsystems. Yeah, we probably will never get the perfect model that fits everyone. Let's just try, give our best and move on ;). Alex
