Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week

"invited to merge"

No one is invited to merge their code in Linux ("pull model"). We've never worked that way; it doesn't scale.

If you feel your code is ready, you submit it for inclusion ("push model").

We see this occasionally with very ego-driven developers. They set up a false precondition, which allows them to complain "my code is not in the kernel because no Important Developer requested its inclusion"