Quote of the week

[Posted November 17, 2021 by corbet]

No one is appointed as a maintainer, you just have to start handing [out] reviewed-by tags until people start to respect your judgement and then you're a maintainer.

— Dan Carpenter

Quote of the week

Posted Nov 18, 2021 10:45 UTC (Thu) by alexbk (subscriber, #37839) [Link] (3 responses)

typo -> "handing out"

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Posted Nov 18, 2021 17:49 UTC (Thu) by jkingweb (subscriber, #113039) [Link] (1 responses)

It's in the original. A sic annotation should perhaps be added, though.

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Posted Nov 18, 2021 18:09 UTC (Thu) by alexbk (subscriber, #37839) [Link]

It makes the quote confusing though. our --> whose?

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Posted Nov 18, 2021 18:16 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> typo -> "handing out"

ok, i adjusted the quote, thanks. just fyi, we prefer typos to be sent to 'lwn@lwn.net' (as the comment editor page says) rather than being posted as comments ...

jake

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Posted Nov 19, 2021 1:13 UTC (Fri) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604) [Link] (1 responses)

I do have to say I enjoyed the follow-up by Dan Carpenter

https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20211116151139.GJ26989@ka...
> To me Acked by means you approve the patch so it's like, yeah, normally
> maintainers use it. But sometimes like people ask for your opinion and
> then you can Ack it. Or maybe you just want to express joy about a
> cfeature. (Please feel joy very sparingly. :P).

I'm trying to think of further comment but I'm just going to leave the quote as well.

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Posted Nov 19, 2021 12:32 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Or (and I've only done this once or twice) I was the original author, so I acked someone else's improvement ...

Cheers,
Wol