From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josh Boyer Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:15 -0400 Message-ID: <1219199116.26429.19.camel@jdub.homelinux.org> References: <1219170451.7591.175.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <20080819.142150.129314008.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, marcel@holtmann.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f16.google.com ([209.85.217.16]:50050 "EHLO mail-gx0-f16.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751768AbYHTCZl (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:41 -0400 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so6039243gxk.13 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:25:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080819.142150.129314008.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:21 -0700, David Miller wrote: > But it doesn't fix the time delegation problem. > > There is always this "oh crap, I just spent 3 months doing nothing > but fixing bugs" feeling a lot of us core folks get right before > the merge window opens up. > > So instead of getting the best work from the best people we have, > we get this last minute flurry of development in the days leading > up to the merge window openning up. So, not to add fuel to a fire that seems to be calming down, but what is so wrong with having that feeling? If the core people are spending 3 months doing nothing but fixing bugs, the I consider that to _be_ the best work from the best people. Bugs happen and it's not really worth debating over how they got into the tree to begin with because it happens in a number of different ways. However, if it takes 3 months of bug fixing to get a tree in shape then I don't see how that's a problem at all. Personally, I'd rather take a relatively bug free tree over new shiny features on top of a buggy as hell tree. Call me old fashioned. josh