Quotes of the week

If we could script taste, we'd have replaced Linus with something far less cantankerous a long time ago.

What if, instead, Linus doesn't actually ever release a point release? We can make the merge window open more often, and since there's no actual release, people won't rush to push fixes in later -rc cycles.

We take away the incentive to push poorly tested code. Maintainers still free to commit anything they'd like, but there's no reason to commit code they're not confident of just to make it to a random release no one will use.

Well, let me put it this way...

Here is your nice elegant little algorithm.

Here is your nice elegant little algorithm equipped to survive within the Linux kernel.

Any questions? ;-)