On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Or Gerlitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed. No maintainer voice makes it kind of impossible for > discussions to converge. What happens over the last years is that when > there's no easy consensus on matter Y, everyone stops breathing and > wait to see what happens on the rc1 night, b/c Roland doesn't spell > his view/preference (nor exposes his for-next branch till the last > minute, see now) many times it seems more as coin flipping.
To me this attitude shows a failure of the community. If I need to make every decision, then that doesn't scale. People can ask questions a lot more easily than I can answer them. In general if a consensus emerges, I'm pretty likely to trust it. In particular, as Sean mentioned, I tend to trust vendors about low-level drivers, although of course I sometimes catch mistakes even then. But for changes that touch the core, when there's a disagreement, you can't expect me to be the one who always solves it. I might have an opinion, but in a lot of cases, both sides might have a point and the only way forward is to come up with a new idea that works for everyone. And I'm not smart enough to come up with that solution every time. - R. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
