Re: Patch committers

Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> > For example, probably only Simon and Heikki are knowledge enough to
> > apply the HS and SR patchs --- but those patch is handled.  The harder
> > part is the other patches where there are only a small pool of people
> > knowledgeable enough to apply the patch, but many of those knowledgeable
> > people are tied up with non-community things.
> 
> People learn to do this by doing it.  That's how you learned, and Tom
> and Heikki.  Ultimately, it's a source code control system; if someone
> screws up, we can always back it out.

True, but even I avoid patches I don't understand, and "practicing" by
applying them could lead to a very undesirable outcome, e.g.
instability.

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