The slides for the Linux-mentoring presentation are no
longer available. Let's point to the wayback version of the
page, which works.
Note that the referenced diagram is also available on page
15 of [1]. We could link to that instead, but it's not clear
from the URL scheme ("uploads") whether it's going to stick
around forever.
[1] https://www.linuxfoundation.jp/jp_uploads/seminar20070313/Randy.pdf
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
convenient to organize your project with an informal hierarchy
of developers. Linux kernel development is run this way. There
is a nice illustration (page 17, "Merges to Mainline") in
-http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation].
+https://web.archive.org/web/20120915203609/http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation].
It should be stressed that this hierarchy is purely *informal*.
There is nothing fundamental in Git that enforces the "chain of