From: Vesa Jääskeläinen <ch...@nic.fi> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:23:11 +0300
> Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Sunday 29 March 2009 20:40:17 David Miller wrote: > >> Everybody is too busy to give this project the attention and time it > >> deserves to be maintained properly. > >> > >> I honestly do not think the situation will change significantly until > >> someone is able to devote real time as a maintainer and process all of > >> the patches that get submitted each day. > > > > This is ideal but not absolutely required. If you look at some popular > > projects, such as Linux and Firefox, you can find out that not all > > (actually, > > very few) patches are handled so quickly, but those projects are > > functioning > > so well. > > For both of those projects there are people that are paid to do that > work either directly or indirectly. How it internally affects, I don't > know. I'm just as active applying Linux networking patches now as a paid employee of a Linux company as when I was just someone doing it for fun. It's not such a difference, really. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
