Re: Designers and Builders (was: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:31:24AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote
> > Tracking feature or implementation suggestions wouldn't make sense.
> > Consider e.g. that there are several people on linux-kernel who often
> > write what they think the kernel should do but who never write a single
> > line of code themselves. There's no value in tracking such stuff.
> 
> There are designers, and there are builders.
> 
> Can you tell me who is more important?

That's a distinction that doesn't exist in practice:

Designing kernel features requires good knowledge of the area of the 
kernel that should be changed.

IOW: If you don't have the skills to implement it yourself you don't 
have the skills to do any good design.

> Thanks!
> Al

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Adrian

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