Quotes of the week

Overall as a community I think we still rely on enterprise distributions and their partners doing a complete round of testing on major releases as a backstop. It's not an ideal situation but we are never going to have enough dedicated physical, financial or human resources to do a complete job.

It's not developers that typically determine the stability of a subsystem but _maintainers_, and the primary method of stabilization is, beyond being careful when merging a patch, is to remember/monitor breakages and not merge new feature patches from a developer until fixable bugs are fixed by the developer.

I wonder if it should be called kernel/locks, as that's less to type, smaller path names, and tastes good on bagels.