Re: The direction linux is taking

Dave Jones
2001-12-29T23:33:48Z

On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:

> So that means that pretty much 100% of development to any one area is being
> done by one person?!? That's cool, but doesn't it limit the speed at which
> forward progress can be made?

The closest approximation my minds-eye can make of how things work
look something like this..

h h h h h
\ | | | /
m m m
\ |/
ttt
|
l

h - random j hacker working on same file/subsystem different goals
m - maintainer for file/subsys
t - "forked" tree maintainer (-ac, -dj, -aa etc..)
l - Linus

Whilst development happens concurrently in parallel, the notion of
progress is somewhat serialised as changes work their way down to
Linus.

(This whole thing goes a little astray when random j hacker sends
patches straight to Linus bypassing everyone else and they get
merged, but the controlled anarchy prevails and everyone somehow
gets back in sync).

Dave.

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