From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261995AbULCFCg (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:02:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261969AbULCFCf (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:02:35 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:1255 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261996AbULCFCQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:02:16 -0500 Message-ID: <41AFF28D.3030600@osdl.org> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:58:53 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Miller CC: ram mohan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Contribute - How to References: <20041203042003.57961.qmail@web90007.mail.scd.yahoo.com> <41AFEB48.60800@osdl.org> <5d3341c0041202205640aef878@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5d3341c0041202205640aef878@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Miller wrote: > On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:27:52 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > >>ram mohan wrote: > > >>>4. Can I suggest new features? >> >>Of course. But part of the Linux culture is that >>ideas/suggestions don't carry much weight. It's >>sometimes phrased as: >> Shut up and code. >>or >> Show us the code. >>so send patches too. :) > > > While this may be true of those on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, I > would hope (from your statement of "Linux Culture", this would involve > things periphially related to Linux, such as KDE), that ideas and > suggestions would actually carry _some_ wait. Good or bad, I mostly use the word "Linux" to mean the kernel, not the entire collection of system software. > Although I can fully understand developers of the Linux Kernel taking > this mindset, since it is not dealing with such things as the User > Interface. Sure, it's up to each open source project to deal with feature requests or suggestions in whatever way that the people in the project(s) choose. > Just something I've had to deal with recently. Don't mind me. -- ~Randy