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Is this still true of GitHub's pull requests? Does Linus still not use them?
by azhenley 6y ago
Is this still true of GitHub's pull requests? Does Linus still not use them?
- ben0x539 6y agoHe does not, look at the graveyard that is https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclose... The Linux kernel uses a development process that is very disjoint from common contemporary open-source practice, and easy to get wrong with modern tools that aren't specifically configured. It's indubitably a very effective process for their purposes but of course as an outsider I pretty much only ever hear about it when someone has a hard time with it...