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The Maintainer’s laws

June 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Thanks to tglx 1. The whip is one of the important maintainer tools. If stinking trout does not work, use whip 2.  A good maintainer never rejects his own patches. 3. A maintainer is good by definition 4.  Maintainers are lazy and therefor delegate the ugly work to contributors

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Some more rules of the LKML

April 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Thanks to tglx Rule #1: Pinhead is always right Rule #2: If for some reason pinhead is not right, see rule #1

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Rule -1

April 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

There have been some interesting flames I have been seeing on the LKML. These brought me about to the most important rule on the LKML. Rule -1:  Don’t piss off the big guys unless you have a good enough reason. And a corollary to Rule -1: No reason is good enough to piss of the [...]

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