Cc: <david@...>, Stephen Clark <sclark46@...>, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@...>, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...>, <Valdis.Kletnieks@...>, Mark Lord <lkml@...>, David Miller <davem@...>, <jesper.juhl@...>, <yoshfuji@...>, <jeff@...>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...>, <git@...>, <netdev@...>
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:39:39AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
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> I'm sure many people would find this useless (or in fact reject the
I have a related proposal: let us require all patches to be stamped
with Discordian *and* Eternal September dates. In triplicate. While
we are at it, why don't we introduce new mandatory headers like, say
it,
X-checkpatch: {Yes,No}
X-checkpatch-why-not:
X-pointless:
X-arbitrary-rules-added-to-CodingStyle: (should be present if
and only if X-pointless: 69 is present).
Come to think of that, we clearly need a new file in Documentation/*,
documenting such headers. Why don't we organize a subcommittee^Wnew maillist
devoted to that? That would provide another entry route for contributors,
lowering the overall entry barriers even further...
Seriously, looks like Andi is right - we've got ourselves a developing
beaurocracy. As in "more and more ways of generating activity without
doing anything even remotely useful". Complete with tendency to operate in
the ways that make sense only to beaurocracy in question and an ever-growing
set of bylaws...
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