Detlef Riekenberg wine.dev@web.de writes:
During the Time, things changed and I get confused more and more times about "special Developers" and "other Developers", as well as "special Patches" and "other Patches". (It's also Possible, that i did not see the big differences before).
There's no such thing as special developer vs. other developer, it's more like a linear scale based on trust: the more I trust a developer the easiest it is for him to get his patches committed. The only way to earn trust points is by submitting consistently good patches.
That doesn't mean you can't get stuff in if you aren't trusted, but it means it will require extra scrutiny, which is why it's very important at the beginning to send small patches that are easy to review. Once you have earned enough trust you can get away with being a bit more sloppy (but not too much, or you'll lose trust points again ;-)