Re: The direction linux is taking

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 05:03:18 +0100


Hi Richard,

On December 27, 2001 06:59 pm, Richard Gooch wrote:
> But years of observations tells me that Linus likes the way he does
> things and doesn't care if others don't like it. I don't expect to see
> much change there.

Except that, at the kernel summit this year, Linus *did* give the nod to a
patchbot, in principle. I could have sworn.

It seems clear that the challenge is to come up with something that really is
so lightweight and useful that Linus will use it. That's the 'Linus test'.
If somebody hands him a piece of crap to use then why would we expect him to
deviate from his normal behaviour ;-)

--
Daniel
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