Linus Explains his Patch Policy

An anonymous reader writes "For everyone who has been wondering the method behind Linus's seeming madness of accepting or dropping patches, he has finally given a thorough explanation. A must read for anyone who wants to get their favorite feature into the next release of the kernel."

Comments

Re:Rescue Me

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks, Lyrics Guy!

Where would we be without your direction and stability?

Sonny Bono

[yerricde]

Can you get it here in time for Christmas?

You can deliver a source code tree, and you can deliver a pine tree, but not even a tree will help get rid of crazy American legislators that write counterproductive copyright laws.

Wow...

[Anonymous Coward]

...somebody woke up on the wrong side of the tree!

Re:Sorry, Linus is being an ass on the LKCD tsarko

[Anonymous Coward]

I hear that. Linus has become a motherfucker.

The Future of SLASHDOT.

2002. Slashdot publishes 1,000,000th rumor passed off as actual story. The story generates 480 comments, 263 of which agree with the article, and 107 of which point out it's a rumor and are modded down as redundant. The remaining comments are all "first posts." or posts that contain any rational insight are modded "troll."

2002. CmdrTaco married to a human female, reports are that she does not have 46 chromosomes, however. Fent does display tendency to retardation.

2002. Slashdot parent corporation VA Research^W Linux^W Software stock worth 35 cents. Rumors that AOL, Microsoft, or even Jimmy the hobo who lives under the Longfellow Bridge may buy it.

2003. VA Software bought by Microsoft for a cup of coffee and a donut. All Microsoft-critical articles mysteriously disappear from Slashdot. Bill Gates as Borg logo replaced with Bill Gates as God. (Taco suggested that in order to be "God," or his vision of God, Gates would have to be seen in a NAMBLA T-shirt. Luckily good taste prevails in favor of the old man image in glowing aura)

2004. CmdrTaco loses virginity, well, not sex with men virginity, that's long since gone, and not sex with anime blow up dolls, this time, real sex.

2004. The WIPO Troll returns again, showering Slashdot in 45,000 copies of the same post: "Lick my crotch hairs." Slashdot, despite
running on 18 redundant IIS/8.0Beta6 servers, buckles under the load. The term "Slashdotted" is replaced with "WIPO-Trolled."

2004. Slashdot officially shut down. Millions of screaming, unwashed geeks invade Redmond campus and lynch Bill Gates.

2005. Linus Torvalds and Anal Cox found dead along with six penguins, a tub of crisco and several used condoms. FreeBSD users are glad the insanity is dying.

2005. CmdrTaco rumored to have had sex again, even with constant Viagra therapy, it took this long. He complains, I can be ready to go again in five minutes if I was looking at a nude man, to the dyslexic Fent.

2006. CowboiKneel found dead in hotel room with 56 pizza boxes covering his bloated corpse. Three suffocated gay prostitutes are extracted from beneath his body as police remove it with a backhoe.

2007. CmdrTaco actually has sex again, this time plugging Fent in the ass for a more manlike feel.

2007. BSD is still officially "dying." No word on when its demise will take place. FreeBSD 9 is delivered in perfect working order in a coherent superior, commercially viable and useable fashion with real documentation, the same practice followed since inception. Linux lunatics, after the death of Cox, are still trying to perfect the Trident driver while ignoring the existence of the GeForce 9. Netcraft dies along with all the surveys they held on Microsoft and Linux servers are lost as well.

2007. CmdrTaco starts new weblog to replace Slashdot, creatively named Dotslash. Remainder of Linux users flock to the site and immediate WIPO-Troll it out of existence.

2007. Box running FreeBSD for 6 years sets world record for Unix uptime on consumer hardware.

2008. CmdrTaco has sex with his wife for the first time without thinking of men. He has dawned on the extra sexual pick me up for his twisted mind, small children.

2010 Marcelo Tosatti finally releases a version of the 2.4 Linux Kernel that is useable 2.4.29-RC2099.alpha.stage.99 (not -STABLE!). Fuck you Marcelo, YOU SUCK as a MAINTAINER.

Is genital-too, I mean Gentoo fixed yet? Last time it made me perform all these stupid, fucking easily scriptable mindless tasks to get it installed, with everything installed perfectly the stupid thing didn't work. Death to OS X, death to lame Linux distributions, I want a COHERENT Linux distribution and FREEBSD or DIE, baby.

very important

[Anonymous Coward]

If you rate this post high, you will soon find luck and happiness in your life. This is not a scam, this is a Linus-endorsed fortune that really works!

Mister Benton from North Wilmington rated this post -1, Offtopic, and on the hext day, he choked while brushing his teeth. Mrs Benton found it and gave it +1, and on the next day, Mr. Benton arose from the dead! Mumbling about "fresh brains" from time to time, and decomposing a bit, but since then, nothing was to spoil their happines.

They won the lottery, too.

I'm just wondering what a new XWindows would take

[BoomerSooner]

I'm looking forward to some of the new extensions. However as a ancient system maybe it's time for a new alternative to XWindows? Any suggestions as to current projects?

In reality using OS X killed Linux on the Desktop for me. I don't care if Linux/XWindows is free, OSS and customizable to my heart's content. I want a UI that works, and that is what OS X does. I was shocked at the increase in speed from 10.1 to 10.2 on my G4 Tower (AGP so the GL extensions work).

Until there is a free alternative that comes close to the Apple UI, I'll pay thousands extra to have Apple hardware to run the Apple OS.

Re:Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

"It's as simple as that. I take stuff that I feel is good."

I think pussy feels good.

So Linus

[anon757]

can't see the forest for the Trees?
Ugh, I just had a flashback to my Windows 2000 Active directory training. Excuse me, I need to go shower now.

In other news.....

[Anonymous Coward]

A large sucking sound was heard emanating from the slashdot community.

Re:Japanese Proverb...

[Cryptnotic]

That proverb is about conformity. If you do not conform yourself, you will be conformed. What Linus does is he ignores the people who want him to do things their way.

Some moderator seems to have considered your comment Interesting. I however, would have called it Offtopic.