On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 10:25:17AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes, people can argue that "process" is about technical issues too, > but let's be honest: our process is fluid. Not everything gets > reviewed on the mailing list, and people *do* talk about things > face-to-face at conferences. Yes, that is true. But we don't review code at conferences. We have mailing lists for that. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard "post your code" or "let's take it to the list" or "better to discuss this on the list where everyone can comment" at conferences such as Plumbers. It's a standard practise - talk at conferences, review on mailing lists. And for changes to syscalls? That's something that must be peer reviewed because we are going to be stuck with those changes forever as we can't undo them at a later date. It doesn't matter who made the change in question, I would have done exactly the same thing.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
