[systemd-devel] Head ups - upstream first no longer applies to the kernel.

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johannbg at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 12:35:13 UTC 2016



On 08/16/2016 12:13 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:23:03AM +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>> Why cant the kernel community figure this out and solve this upstream first
>> since it's quite obvious from the threads that Tejun Heo linked to in that pull
>> request that this is a political issue not a technical one.
>>
>> Surely Linus and his so called lieutenants can step in and break political
>> status quo like that.
> That makes no sense at all, sorry.  Work with the upstream developers to
> get this resolved, that's all that anyone can do here.

So each maintainer can prevent changeset from being merged if affect the 
area he ( currently ) maintains the kernel.

That's interesting and begs the question how much time and energy the 
kernel community spend in resolving matters that stem from "opinions" 
and people stubbornness?

JBG


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