From: "Justin T. Gibbs" [off-list ref]
   Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:26:36 -0700

   > Because it is your duty as maintainer to watch what changes
   > (especially build fixes) go into Linus's and Marcelo's tree.
   
   That's like saying that its Linus's or Marcelo's responsibility
   to catch whether you or anyone else submits a bogus/broken change
   to their tree.

Your driver update broke the build of Linus's tree, so I sent Linus
a change that fixed the build.

And in fact, you are describing exactly what Linus and Marcelo's
jobs are, to reject bogus/broken changes.