Re: The direction linux is taking

Craig Christophel
2001-12-18T06:10:01Z

The aggressive nature of the list is a result of people who have all spent a
great deal of time researching kernel internals. It is much akin to a thesis
proposal and defense that you would see in an educational environment. It
may not be the most comfortable thing in the world, but it gets the base
issues resolved, because if you do not know what is going on someone WILL
tell you. -- and then you revise and defend. think of it as an academic
discussion forum -- where people (usually) have the right to sound off.
There is normally no harm done, although the recent MM discussions have been
a bit heated.

Craig.

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 00:20, Eyal Sohya wrote:
> I've watched this List and have some questions to ask
> which i would appreciate are answered. Some might not
> have definite answers and we might be divided on them.
>
> 1. Are we satisfied with the source code control system ?
> 2. Is there enough planning for documentation ? As another
> poster mentioned, there are new API and we dont know about
> them.
> 3. There is no central bug tracking database. At least people
> should know the status of the bugs they have found with some
> releases.
> 4. Aggressive nature of this mailing list itself may be a
> turn off to many who would like to contribute.
>
>
>
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