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criticalfault ◴[] No.44466573[source]
I've been following this for a while now.

Kent is in the wrong. Having a lead position in development I would kick Kent of the team.

One thing is to challenge things. What Kent is doing is something completely different. It is obvious he introduced a feature, not only a Bugfix.

If the rules are set in a way that rc1+ gets only Bugfixes, then this is absolutely clear what happens with the feature. Tolerating this once or twice is ok, but Kent is doing this all the time, testing Linus.

Linus is absolutely in the right to kick this out and it's Kent's fault if he does so.

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1. monkeyelite ◴[] No.44469158[source]
What you’re saying make sense but do we know the social convention about bugfix classification in Linux?

My job matches what you’re describing, but bug fix is widely interpreted. It basically means “managers don’t do anything stupid”.

If someone got in trouble using language you are desiring “the rules are clear and were broken”, i would feel they were singling someone out.