Re: [PATCH] ehci-hcd: remove useless timeout

[Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:04 AM, Aleksey Kuleshov <rndfax@yandex.ru> wrote:
> [quote]
> To improve tracking of who did what, especially with patches that can
> percolate to their final resting place in the kernel through several
> layers of maintainers, we've introduced a "sign-off" procedure on
> patches that are being emailed around.
> [/quote]
>
> So Linux kernel had some problems due to their huge developers/maintainers list
> and they solved them by using "sign-off" procedure.
> Do Barebox have that burden of "patches that can
> percolate to their final resting place in the kernel through several
> layers of maintainers"?
>
> Also in chapter 11 there are rules which are pure bureaucratic.
> Bureaucracy is a thing of a large projects.
> Is Barebox such as big as Linux that it must have these rules too?
>

IANAL, but AFAIU those "rules which are pure bureaucratic" are a legal
framework that originated in Linux kernel and was borrowed by many
projects, Barebox among them. So to answer your question: it has
nothing to do with the size of the project, copyright and associated
laws in various shapes or forms applies to everyone. Can it be done in
a better, less verbose, more convenient form by smaller projects?
Maybe or maybe not, but I don't think the question can be answered
without performing proper legal analysis(done by law professionals, of
course) which is very costly, time consuming, etc.

> Solving inexisting problems doesn't make life easier but complicates it.
>

That's very much a truism, so you won't find much opposition to that.
The devil, as usual, is in the details of how you define what
constitutes a non-existing problem. This may sound rude and I
apologize for not coming up with a way of better delivery, but I,
personally, think that even if we were to assume that the whole SOB
mechanism is  most egregious and ridiculous legal cargo-cult,
necessity to type  "git commit -s" as  opposed "git commit -s" when
you are commiting changes is a non-existing problem.

Andrey

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