- developer, maintainer, lieutenant (subsystem maintainer), architect (linus, andrew)
  - subsystem maintainer trees, lists.
  - owe you a reject notice.
  - editorial model, slush pile, fighting off sturgeon's law
    - reject notice can be positive it if suggests changes.
- forking
  - advantages
    - egcs, glibc2, x.org -- good thing.
    - if maintainer goes nuts, better version, compete on merits.
    - GPL allows cherry picking from day 1.
  - disadvantags
  - gpl
  - soft forks vs hard forks
    - isolate development, then merge
    - persistent doesn't mean hard, means don't resync
  - better tools to marshall and merge.
- merge your changes or they'll bitrot.
  - maintaining patch out of tree is painful.  This is anti-fork pressure.
    hence stable-api-nonsense - binary only drivers are forks not merged
    nvidia is forking the tree and complaining when their fork bitrots.
- prototype fan club
  patch pressure, project gravity, shiny thing
  talk begets talk, code begets code.  Show me the code.