The hierarchy seems to be two levels deep now. Linus doesn't accept patches
from all 300 maintainers anyway, he has a group of a dozen or so lieutenants.
(Andre Hedrick has to send code to Jens Axboe, for example, before Linus
will take it.)
Being a lieutenant would have to require bitkeeper before simply being a
maintainer would. I doubt it would ever work its way to simple developers
submitting to maintainers.
(This is, of course, just my take on things...)
Rob
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