New BitKeeper software to help Linus

Larry McVoy has quit his job to help Linus scale better: Recently Linus has been getting too many patches (understandable now that Linux is on so many architectures) and is having difficulty keeping up. Linux Weekly News has the gory details. The new system will enable a hierarchy of more and more trusted Linux developers to filter/improve patches before they reach Linus himself without resorting to the committee style approach that has led to the *BSDs splitting up. Given that Larry has lost quite a bit of money so far developing this software the license has yet to be finalized. However he is well qualified to do this having written the source control system used at Sun. Linus is willing to try it out.