From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264705AbUEXWOn (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 18:14:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264717AbUEXWOn (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 18:14:43 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:65198 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264705AbUEXWOe (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 18:14:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:14:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission In-Reply-To: <20040524220136.GC18532@colin2.muc.de> Message-ID: References: <1YUY7-6fF-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <20040524220136.GC18532@colin2.muc.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 25 May 2004, Andi Kleen wrote: > > In practice I guess it would end up with that maintainers would spend a lot > of time explaining to everybody what this new policy is about and > possibly are forced to reject a lot of patches initially. ...which is why we want to have a wide discussion of it now, the less to have to explain to people ;) I don't expect this process to start taking effect for a while. Not only do we need to come to some level of agreement about it, but we need to give people the time to learn about it _without_ rejecting patches in the meantime. There is no real "flag-day" (and it's certainly not today), although I'm hoping that by the time I start up 2.7.x we'd have this in place. Linus