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Linus Does Not Scale

Posted by michael on from the where-are-the-clones-when-you-need-them dept.

EmilEifrem writes: "Seems like everybody's getting more and more frustrated by Linus' (in-) ability to handle patches. Rob Landley just wrote an "RFC on Penguin Patch Management" wherein he proposes a "Penguin Patch Lieutenant" system that he believes would scale better. The full discussion can be found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Linus seems to dislike it, as usual, source code maintenance tools/organization are for wimps!, but a lot of others find it a good idea. Anyway, it's a very good read."

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  1. I think it goes without saying... by davidu · · Score: 4, Redundant

    This is Linus's project, although supported by 1000's of developers, he is the man with the final say.

    Maybe he does have some Theo-like qualities, it doesn't bother me -- He's created a great OS for me and I trust his judgement in what he wants to merge in and out of the source tree in the future.

    Before creating some kind of soap opera from the emails on LKML we need to realize that that all that is going on is discussion...this posting (hardly an "article") is trying to make something out of nothing.
    David U.
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    # Hack the planet, it's important.
  2. If one Linus doesn't scale ... by Wordsmith · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If one Linus doesn't scale ... maybe we should try out a beowolf cluster of Linuses.

    Linuses? Linusi?

  3. Re:CVS/Linux fork? by garett_spencley · · Score: 2, Redundant

    This post actually does a good job of answering your question.

    Read the part about David Miller.

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    Garett

  4. Re:OK, it needs top be said... by DarthWiggle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hey, you know, if we had a Beowulf cluster of Linuses...

    Oh, somebody already said that? Drat, always late to the party.

    (/. social experiment #42: will they mod me "Redundant", "Offtopic", or "Troll"? Or will they just not care? *sigh*)