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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> So man up, guys. Face the problem, rather than say "well, it's staging", 
> or "well, we can revert it". Neither of those really solve anything in the 
> short run _or_ the long run.

Linus stop and think for a minute instead. Maybe a timeline would help


		Nouveau development starts
		People ship highly experimental stuff for testers
		Code gets to the "works but really needs a clean up point"

		Linus demands it is merged
		Linus gets it merged as staging

		Developers start doing the cleanup

		Linus throws a tantrum because they did the cleanup after
		merge


*YOU* forced the early merge (rightly or wrongly)
*YOU* effectively created the API break problem

So blaming other people is quite out of order.

Alan