[CVALE] Linux Kernel Developer Quit

[Dennis Baker]

I need to start reading LWN again,  I've gotten off the habit.  Probably
about the best source for linux kernel related news outside the kernel
mailing lists themselves.

-_ Dennis

On 7/26/07, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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