Date: 24 May 2001 11:37:21 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reiser: BSD cliques Message-ID: <xzpk837dr5a.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20010523140632.A22510@undressed.sclt.com> References: <JPENJPCGKEAHFPBDMJFIAEPICAAA.arun@sharmas.dhs.org> <xzpwv789cpy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010523140632.A22510@undressed.sclt.com>
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Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org> writes: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:50:17PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Find yourself a pet committer and have him review and commit your patches > Let me play the devil's advocate for a moment. You're basically saying: > join the clique :) When I mailed Intel CPU cache size detection patches > to Linus Torvalds back in 97-98, he just commited them. I didn't have > to find a pet committer. Yes you did: Linus. You contacted him directly. When you submit a PR, you don't contact a committer directly; you just add a PR to a database that already lists thousands. > Some people may lack the social skills needed to go out to a bar and > socialize with a few people to find the right committer. Who's talking about going out to a bar? Find someone who has previously worked on the code you have patches for, and mail him the patches and / or a reference to the PR. Is that so hard? > All I'm trying to say is, why does it have to be so difficult ? If > one person like Linus can handle hundreds of patches, why can't the > 200+ committers handle a much smaller number of them ? A much *larger* number of patches. Also, Linus maintains a single branch of a code base about one fifth the size of FreeBSD's, and FreeBSD's 200+ committers, only a small portion actually work on source code. > May be there > isn't a streamlined mechanism in place, in which case we need to > do some work there. Dispatching can't be done mechanically, because a machine can't evaluate the quality of a PR, or recognize and correct a misfiled PR. We need humans to do it, and to paraphrase Jamie Zawinski, it's monkey work, man! It's very tedious, time-consuming, unrewarding work, and nobody wants to do it, so unless you're ready to volunteer for that work, just play the game the way it's played. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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