From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
Cc: ksummit@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Transparency when rejecting patches without technical reason
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:26:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgQKBvXaSNVxy-2Q3KYeTbv-CGSTf3LSV3=O5howAPifA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZN9ZfUVHrRhd+btc@shikoro>
On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 at 13:44, Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
> this obviously aims at the rejection of networking patches from Baikal
> Electronics in March. I only got to know about this yesterday when
> reading comments about Debian now supporting the LoongArch architecture.
>
> I admit I thought we accept / reject patches purely because of technical
> reasons.
Honestly, technical reasons are a "minimum requirement".
But there are clearly other reasons, and always have been. Including
simply the fact that we have to trust the source of the patch. Things
like "will you support this going forward".
Maintainers have to be comfortable with the source of the code. And
not all maintainers can work with all people. That has always been
true.
This wasn't even remotely a gray area. It's not worth discussing.
Linus
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-18 11:43 Wolfram Sang
2023-08-18 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2023-08-19 16:22 ` Wolfram Sang
2023-08-19 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-08-21 19:43 ` Wolfram Sang
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