Syindication
Less Rigid Maintainership Structure
"Quite frankly, at least for me personally, what I would rather have [...] is a less rigid maintainership structure," Linus Torvalds proposed. He went on to explain, "let's face it, we are *all* likely to be overworked at different times, and even when not overworked, it's just the fact that people need to take a breather etc. And there is seldom - if ever - a very strong argument for having one person per subsystem." He noted that git is an excellent tool for spreading out maintenance, then added, "but even without something like that, I think it's much better to try to find people you can trust, rather than strict maintainership boundaries." Linus continued:
"I've personally always been against _strict_ maintainer lines, so I've always taken stuff 'past' the maintainer anyway (and sometimes maintainers have complained, because they feel like they 'own' their subsystem, and I either tell them to stuff it, or say 'my bad', depending on whether they had a valid _technical_ complaint or not)."
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