'Make Linus's life easier' say hackers

Source: Vnunet

Linux kernel hackers this week appealed for the appointment of a 'penguin patch lieutenant' to deal with the glaring shortcomings in Linus Torvalds's kernel patch system and generally "make Linus's life easier".
In a request for comments posted to the Linux kernel mailing list yesterday, kernel hacker Rob Landley slammed the current state of the Linux kernel patching system as "ridiculous" and called for the appointment of a penguin patch master.

Landley said that patches from kernel maintainers are being dropped on a regular basis and are stunting the development of Linux.

"This is burning out maintainers and increasing the number of different kernel trees. [It's] not yet a major fork, but a lot of cracks and fragmentation are showing under the stress. Linus needs an integration lieutenant, and he needs one now," he said.