Routing around problem maintainers
Routing around problem maintainers
Posted Feb 1, 2018 17:28 UTC (Thu) by ebiederm (guest, #35028)In reply to: Too many lords, not enough stewards by neilbrown
Parent article: Too many lords, not enough stewards
I just want to emphasize this part of Neil Brown's comments.
If maintainers are a bottleneck, they can be routed around.
Being a bottleneck can be as simple as not having enough time to look at code, it doesn't even require someone to be abusive of their power
or responsibility.
I do this all of the time, and I have people do it to me all of the time.
Especially for things like making a big cross subsystem change it is just easier to stand-up and run your own tree, and just
let people who might be affected know that you are doing something, rather than ask for permission.
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