Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Accountability | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:11:56 +1000 | From | Colin McCormack <> |
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> > I don't think I was implicitly relying upon magic to get it into the kernel. > > Let's look at what `suitable fashion' might mean, in this context: > > A suitable fashion means someone submits it to Linus and promises to maintain > it and fix it.
Is this documented somewhere?
> > I'm reminded of when Andrew Tanenbaum discouraged Bruce Evans and me from > > working on a multi-threaded file system for Minix because it'd reduce the > > pedagogic value of Minix. > > > > We know what happened then. > > Yes. His OS stayed a teaching OS has he deeply believed it should.
Yes, but meanwhile it forked, producing a better OS: Minix.
Now there's Hurd on the horizon, Eros looking like reviving the `debate' about microkernels, and no reasonable facsimile of a version control or patch submission system for Linux.
>>> So the answer might be as simple as "The author never tried >>> to get it included", have you even asked the author about this and does >>> s/he even _want_ it in the kernel? >> >> Yes, I asked. Yes, the author has posted patches. He's probably too polite. > > Feel free to be his marketing front man. I do however think you are 4 weeks > late for 2.4
From one marketing front man to another: I respect your desire to keep the brand name pure, but what's in a number? Something for real marketing front men to put on a press release? What's it got to do with the *other* use to which one might put Linux ... experimenting with new features?
What'd be really nice would be a system where people could directly submit branch material, others could selectively check out branches, and still others could (if they wished) re-join the branches.
Linus could bless branches, so could you, but people should be able to roll their own to a much greater extent, if Linux is to maintain any kind of growing edge.
Another lesson from history is the gcc/egcs development. I'd say Linux's in the balance now, but if I were intimately involved with the kernel, I'd be open-sourcing it as quickly as possible.
Colin.
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