New development model check-in.

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Nov 18 09:54:52 PST 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 09:31 -0800, Keith Packard wrote: 
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:30:53 +1100, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think that's necessarily true in areas that aren't EXA;
> > certainly, no-one else has complained, and the patch flow from both
> > regular and one-off contributors seems to be very similar to what it was
> > before the change.
> 
> Right, the EXA changes are difficult for me to review as I don't use
> this code myself. I'm not comfortable taking most of the technical
> patches into the server without having some additional review, but the
> review results I've been seeing are often of the form 'if you change
> this, then it looks good to me'.

That's not what I said. I gave an Acked-by: line on the condition that a
specific minor change was made to the patch. I've seen this done a
couple of times for the Linux kernel, so it must be good, right?


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