Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2002 07:03:59 +0100 |
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On January 31, 2002 06:32 am, Rob Landley wrote: > On Wednesday 30 January 2002 10:40 pm, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Rob Landley apparently wrote: > > > I expect it will all get worked out eventually. Now that the secret of > > > the difference between maintainers and lieutenants is out. > > > > By the way, that never was a secret to anybody in active development. > > I.E. the people who knew it knew it, and hence never noticed the problem... > > There are, however, some people writing largeish bits of code that did not in > fact seem to know it. Andre Hedrick's IDE work, Eric Raymond with the help > files and CML2, Kieth Owens' new build process...
They all know who the lieutenants are, I can assure you.
> Maybe it was even a factor in Alan Cox burning out (you'd have to ask him > about that)...
Whatever gave you the idea that Alan is burnt out?
A observation: before proposing how we should fix the Linux development process, perhaps you should have studied it enough to know how it works, first.
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