Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:46:12AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:33:33AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > > So no, your kind of cynical, defeatist sentiment about code quality is by 
> > > no means true in my experience. Projects become ugly gooballs once 
> > > maintainers stop caring enough.
> >
> > In case of Qemu it was other way around. Maintainers started caring too late.
> 
> Nah, i do not think it's ever too late to care.
> 
> Example: arch/i386 - arch/x86_64/ was very messy for many, many years and we 
> turned it around and can be proud of arch/x86/ today - but i guess i'm somewhat 
> biased there ;-)
> 
> In my experience it's entirely possible to turn a messy gooball into something 
> you can be proud of - it's all reversible. Start small, with the core bits you 
> care about most - then extend those concepts to other areas of the code base, 
> gradually. There might be subsystems that will never turn around before 
> becoming obsolete - that's not a big problem.
> 
I do not disagree, but then qemu has a chance because maintainers do
care now, but not about all bits. And there should be willingness to
drop bits nobody cares about and I do not see this yet.

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			Gleb.