Re: [PATCH] gitweb: tree view: eliminate redundant "blob"

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Oct 3, 2006, 16:31 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610030928160.3952@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wpqujck.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Honestly, I _hate_ to be in the position to decide in which
> color the bikeshed should be, but sometimes that is what a
> maintainer has to do.

Quite often, that's _exactly_ the one thing a maintainer should do. Most "non-bikeshed-painting" issues don't need maintainers. They are obvious to everybody, and/or there's only one person who actually did the work, and nobody else ends up beign competent enough, and people know it.

The real glory of maintainership isn't making the big and important decisions. The real glory lies in all the _small_ stuff that doesn't really matter, and that people will just argue forever.

The ability to just cut off the stupid debate early about something that otherwise never gets resolved (or that causes bad feelings just because people get worked up over some perceived issue), _that_ is what the maintainer is all about.

			Linus