Quim K Holland wrote:
"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Reading mailing list threads it is becoming common these days to hear
about contributors with patches ready to be sent as soon as 1.5.4 is
out.
Would be a good idea to open a new branch new_stuff as a target for
this pending stuff?
Back when Mr. Torvalds was still leading the development there was
not this stupid stability freeze and many useful patches were
accepted every day. For the past few months Mr. Hammano has not been
adding much useful code himself, did not join interesting discussions
such as Unicode normalization issues, nor gave much useful comments
on patches. He has mostly been busy rejecting useful patches and
sending not so useful comments.
Can we vote Mr. Hammano out and ask Mr. Torvalds to come back as the
project leader? I do not mean any disrespect to Mr. Hammano, but
don't people think he outlived his usefulness as the project leader?
That's Mr Hamano (one 'm'), and personally, I think that only when you
have contributed to this project yourself, would you have a leg to stand
on when you criticise him.
As an observer, I think that Junio is doing a superb job of managing the
sometimes quite torrential flow of patches contributed to git. As Linus
himself has often said (Paraphrased, of course):
The role of the maintainer is often more to *reject* patches than to
accept them, so as to maintain the quality of the code base.
Having said that, the amount of *constructive* criticism that
accompanies those rejections is amazing. Often I have seen multiple
pages of response to a 2 line patch, so that the contributor (and other
observers) can better understand the reason for the rejection, and how
to construct a better patch that would be accepted.
Regards,
Rogan
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