From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:18:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:18:02 -0400 Received: from postfix2-2.free.fr ([213.228.0.140]:1554 "HELO postfix2-2.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:17:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:15:19 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= X-X-Sender: To: Alan Cox Cc: Grover Andrew , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: source control? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010824145817.F1531-100000@gerard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > What other people? > > You can only allow trusted people to commit, and backing out crap is qu= > > ite > > easy. > > This is the model we use. The trust people list is Linus Torvalds. You just pointed out the problem. Linus being the only trusted committer for more than 100 MB of source base as he was for less than 1 MB 10 years ago. And our single committer got some other loads as he has a job, children, a boss, a mother-in-law :), may-be pets, etc... The fact that Linux has great success does not mean that Linus is right on the way he wants the kernel maintainance to proceed. It just means that he hasn't been too wrong on this point, in my opinion. :-) Gérard.