I was asking for clarification.
> I can work with a
> limited number of people, and those people can work with _their_ limited
> number of people etc etc.
I.E. a tree structure.
> The MAINTAINERS file is _not_ a list of people I work with on a daily
> basis. In fact, I don't necessarily even recognize the names of all those
> people.
>
> Let's take an example. Let's say that you had a patch for ppp. You'd send
> the patch to Paul Mackerras. He, in turn, would send his patches to David
> Miller (who knows a hell of a lot better what it's all about than I do).
> And he in turn sends them to me.
>
> They are both maintainers. That doesn't mean that I necessarily work with
> every maintainer directly.
Okay, so there's a tree of maintainers, and some maintainers seem unaware
that they should be sending their patches to other maintainers rather than
directly to you?
Does this seem like a valid assessment of at least part of the problem?
> Why? Because having hundreds of people emailing me _obviously_ doesn't
> scale. Never has, never will. It may work over short timeperiods wih lots
> of energy, but it obviously isn't a stable setup.
Well at least we agree on something. :)
> Linus
Rob
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