Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

Daniel Phillips
2007-08-07T06:55:48Z

On Saturday 28 July 2007 14:06, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:07:05 -0700, Bill Huey (hui) escribió:
> The main problem is clearly that no scheduler was clearly better than
> the other. This remembers me of the LVM2/MD vs EVMS in the 2.5 days -
> both of them were good enought, but only one of them could be merged.
> The difference is that EVMS developers didn't get that annoyed, and
> not only they didn't quit but they continued developing their
> userspace tools to make it work with the solution included in the
> kernel
> > (http://lwn.net/Articles/14714/)

Not that I want to be in this thread, particularly since it is already
two weeks stale, but your take on the EVMS story is incorrect. The
EVMS developers (that is, Kevin) sent out a nice, conciliatory email,
the project sputtered on for a while, then basically died.

http://marc.info/?l=evms-devel&m=118240945708775&w=2

Bill is right. People who know people are right. A lot of good talent
has been lost to Linux over the years because of various, perhaps good
intentioned, gaffs. The thing is, if you contribute to a project like
Linux for fun, when it stops being fun you walk.

Regards,

Daniel