[CVALE] Linux Kernel Developer Quit

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:04:05 -0700, "Landon Blake" <lblake at ksninc.com>
wrote:

> Any thoughts on the recent exit of a kernel developer?

Here's what LWN's Jon Corbet wrote:

http://lwn.net/Articles/242237/

> Communications with the community have been an occasional problem with Con's
> patches. Almost uniquely among kernel developers, Con chose to do most of his
> work on his own mailing list. That has resulted in a self-selected community
> of users which is nearly uniformly supportive of Con's work, but which, in
> general, is not participating much in the development of that work. It is rare
> to see patches posted to the ck-list which were not written by Con himself.
> The result was the formation of a sort of cheerleading squad which would
> occasionally spill over onto linux-kernel demanding the merging of Con's
> patches. This sort of one-way communication was not particularly helpful for
> anybody involved. It failed to convince developers outside of ck-list, and it
> failed to make the patches better.

It's a damning indictment, IMHO, especially considering Jon.

> What do you think about this article, which talks about forking the
> Linux kernel for the desktop?

Utter bullshit, IMHO.

-- Pete