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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:37:01 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:04:11PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Here's an important point: developers have a fixed amount of development
> time.  They spend some of that time fixing bugs and the rest of that time
> on <otherstuff>.  And while one could cook up all sorts of wonderful
> process changes, they all would be aimed at a single thing: shifting some
> of the developers' time away from <otherstuff> and onto bugfixing.
>...

There is another possible solution:
Finding more maintainers.

The problem seems to be that there are many people who want to write 
drivers for cool shiny new hardware, but not many people willing to
learn to know and maintain existing code.

cu
Adrian

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