Holger Schurig wrote:
So, if you ask them to post each and every patch on
linux-wireless, then other projects should do the same. Some
projects (e.g. bcm43xx) mostly do cross-post. Is this the way
people should go?
Yes, definitely.
* It is unscalable for core wireless developers to scan every individual
driver mailing list.
* The amount of review is demonstrably lower when you bypass the core
mailing list.
* The amount of information sharing, with regards to common problems and
common solutions, is far far lower when people and knowledge are spread
out across a wide variety of mailing lists.
* It's a huge pain to scan $N mailing list archives for something, when
you could just scan one and be reasonably certain that your search
covered all useful areas.
Like open source itself, we want to bring people -together- to work on a
common vision. Not have $N competing visions, that are only reconciled
when patches are pushed upstream to linville. That puts additional
burden on linville, and lowers the quality of the code (as described in
more detail in my response to James K just now).
Jeff
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