On Saturday 02 February 2002 20:17, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > Eric Raymond commented about the patch I submitted to xconfig, so I'd like > to explain myself. > > I didn't fix xconfig; Olaf Dietsche did. I tested the patch and sent it > to Linus in accordance with my duties as maintainer. After a week or two, > I'll send it again, mark it "try #2", and send copies to kbuild-devel > (again) and lkml. And then try #3, and so on. > > One of these things is going to happen: > > . Linus will accept my CML1 patches. > . Linus will reject my CML1 patches with a reason. > . Linus will tell me that he doesn't want to see CML1 patches from me, > which immediately raises the question of who *can* submit CML1 patches > to him and get them considered. > . Linus will keep blackholing patches from me. Then everybody in lkml is > going to see Linus blackholing patches from an official maintainer. > . Linus will do to CML1 what he did with Configure.help, and then he won't > have to deal with the CML1 maintainer any more. That would mean he would > need some kind of CML system from somewhere. > . Something else that I haven't even thought of. ???
Linus may accept that patch from Dave Jones. 2.5.3-dj1 has Olaf's patch. Evidently DaveJ watches lkml pretty closely. He picked up one of my 6-line fixes to netfilter, and I didn't even cc to him. > > I am aware that I am oscillating between "find a market alternative > to Linus" and "work with Linus". In order to get to the point of > looking for an alternative to Linus, I have to make one more sincere > attempt to work with Linus. I discovered early on that: a) Linus ignores patches big and small, especially big. b) Alan applied patches which were correct and necessary. I hope that Dave Jones can fill Alan's shoes as the market alternative. Steven _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
