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The Trivial Patch Monkey Trial

From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), davej@suse.de (Dave Jones), esr@thyrsus.com
Subject: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:10:56 -0500
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Patch Penguin Proposal.

 1) Executive summary.
 2) The problem.
 3) The solution.
 4) Ramifications.

 -- Executive summary.

Okay everybody, this is getting rediculous. Patches FROM MAINTAINERS are 
getting dropped on the floor on a regular basis. This is burning out 
maintainers and is increasing the number of different kernel trees (not yet a 
major fork, but a lot of cracks and fragmentation are showing under the 
stress). Linus needs an integration lieutenant, and he needs one NOW.