Linux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016
Notes
- Linux drivers are in-tree, unlike most other OSes
- 4k developers (as of 2016)
- Optimize for maintainer time, “waste” developer time
- 1k maintainers, 700 active (!)
- “Signed-off-by” chains
- Some folks use quilt instead of git to maintain trees
- 0-day bot
- Patches need to be in linux-next before going to Linus' tree
- Web/tree of trust