Re: Re: making progress with ACPI was: ACPI small patch update

Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-30T16:18:29Z

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Jens Haug wrote:

| > I do agree. The more people do not want other to look/critic their code,
| > the more they pretend what they do is a kind of black art, and do not
| > document it or make design document :-) Fixing bug is annoying, making a
| > new release and advising to report a problem on it is so more fun.
|
| I don't think this is about fun. There are people getting paid by
| Intel for this, aren't they? Would you like it if your boss could
| have a look at a list of mistakes you made in your job? Man, I sure
| am glad there's no list with *my* mistakes! Yes, I know that bugs
| are perfectly normal in such projects, no need to be ashamed. But
| maybe their boss doesn't know that?
| Just speculating here...

Sure, they get paid for it. And it's fun. It's a great work
combination if you can get it.
And I don't expect the boss question to be an issue either.

When I was the linux-usb maintainer (and working at Intel),
my manager and I discussed Linux process issues, or I could
ask him for advice whenever I wanted to, but otherwise I had
almost complete autonomy over the Linux-USB project (unless
Linus objected :).
I don't know how Andy works, but I doubt that it's a traditional
Intel project.

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~Randy
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