| It is inappropriate to force search engine maintainers to establish from all publishers if there is a linking permission. |
| Besides, maintainers of filesystems rarely accept feature-enhancement patches to their stable filesystems. |
| Instead, the fire brigade consists primarily of the maintainers of the software. |
| In addition, these sub-system maintainers may trust another handful of local developers to commit changes into their own repositories. |
| Torvalds might consult particular maintainers or ask the community for feedback, but there is no formal vote or clear balance of power. |
| These small patches can be concatenated together when distributed to project maintainers. |
