On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 09:09:04AM +0100, James Bottomley wrote: > > So what I saw is that as developers exercised this and effectively > > disengaged unless directly attacked, it pretty much became all on Linus > > because no-one was left in the chain. This is precisely where I think > > we could do with an alternative mechanism. > > You are implying here that we all just "ran away" and left Linus to hold > the bag here, which is NOT the case at all. This specific issue has > been discussed to death in a lot of different threads, public and > private with lots of people involved and none of that would have been > any different had we had some sort of "process document" ahead of time. > > So I don't think that attempting to codify the very rare occurrences like > this is going to really help out much, given that they are all unique to > their time/place/subsystem based on our past history like this. I agree.
