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Peer review ?

Posted Oct 29, 2011 14:53 UTC (Sat) by xav (guest, #18536)
Parent article: The embedded long-term support initiative

It looks to me the intended process is to collect patches without the kind of review one can witness on lkml. Won't that be a way to fasttrack dubious changes to the main tree ?

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Peer review ?

Posted Oct 31, 2011 12:52 UTC (Mon) by armijn (subscriber, #3653) [Link]

The fasttrack will only be used in some "unusual and urgent" cases (as the article says, although I don't know what will be unusual and urgent cases, but I am assuming and hoping that the maintainers will be very conservative) and the default will be "upstream first". Before things will end up in the mainline kernel.org tree they will be peer reviewed anyway.

Peer review ?

Posted Nov 3, 2011 5:55 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

Fast-tracking changes into this tree will not get them into the kernel, and will almost certainly get them more scrutiny and skepticism, not less. This sounds more like a variant of staging.