Comment by iSnow
4 years ago
>It's one missed email or one bad timezone mismatch away from releasing the kraken.
I don't think code commits to the Linux kernel make it to live systems that fast?
I do agree with the sentiment, though. It's grossly irresponsible to do that without asking at least someone in the kernel developer's group. People don't dig being used as lab rats, and now the whole uni is blocked. Well, tough shit.
No, but they're very high-traffic and if the "this was a deliberately bad patch" message is sent off-list, only to the maintainer, things can go south pretty easily. Off-list messages are easy to miss on inboxes whose email is in MAINTAINERS and receive a lot of spam, you can email someone right as they're going on vacation and so on. That's one of the reasons why a lot of development happens on a mailing list.