Re: Fw: Re: Past CREDITS files

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Sat, 06 Oct 2001 10:55:17 +0100

juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net said:
> This is something I'd be interested in as well. When did Linus start
> to give out the maintenance of certain parts of the kernel to others?
> Does this coincide with the famous "Linus doesn't scale" debate that
> Glyn Moody describes as the moment Linux almost forked? And was this
> very difficult?

Individual filesystems/drivers/subsystems/architectures/protocols have had
their own maintainers for years - but those maintainers still have to submit
patches, repeatedly if needs be, to Linus for final approval.

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dwmw2




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