From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Linux Contribution Maturity Model and the wider community
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 03:32:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZJUEPPSIRsOFNoWP@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5490402b-8b9f-f52d-3896-41090e639e51@linux-m68k.org>
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:51:19AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> - The roles of maintainer and reviewer should be taught in universities at
> a post-graduate level to increase the talent pool.
Umm. I can't say that I know anyone who studied computer science at a
post-graduate level and then became a Linux maintainer. They probably
exist, but I'm not aware of them. In contrast, I can name two people
who started a PhD in another subject and then got lured into Linux
development, abandoning their PhD. I suspect most have a bachelors.
Some do not have a degree.
I don't think it's the role of a computer science department to do
this kind of teaching. It feels more practical. Now maybe it's part
of a software engineering curriculum, but then I don't think it's a
post-graduate topic.
It could also be something a professional society pushes. The British
Computer Society were really into that kind of thing twenty-five years
ago when they were trying to persuade me to join.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-23 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-19 9:41 [PATCH] Documentation: Linux Contribution Maturity Model and the wider community Finn Thain
2023-06-19 9:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-06-20 3:48 ` Finn Thain
2023-06-20 13:00 ` James Bottomley
2023-06-19 11:32 ` James Bottomley
2023-06-20 3:50 ` Finn Thain
2023-06-20 22:52 ` [Tech-board-discuss] " James Bottomley
2023-06-19 19:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-06-20 3:54 ` Finn Thain
2023-06-20 21:25 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-06-21 1:51 ` Finn Thain
2023-06-21 12:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-06-22 7:02 ` Finn Thain
2023-06-22 7:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-06-22 7:24 ` Finn Thain
2023-06-22 17:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-06-23 0:52 ` Finn Thain
2023-06-23 1:45 ` [Tech-board-discuss] " Mark Brown
2023-06-21 14:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-06-21 22:48 ` Finn Thain
2023-07-01 1:46 ` Measurement, was " Finn Thain
2023-07-01 7:04 ` [Tech-board-discuss] Measurement, was " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-07-01 22:54 ` Finn Thain
2023-06-21 22:44 ` Finn Thain
2023-06-23 2:32 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-06-19 19:49 ` Kees Cook
2023-06-20 3:54 ` Finn Thain
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