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    SubjectRe: The direction linux is taking
    On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 12:33:29AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
    > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
    >
    > > So that means that pretty much 100% of development to any one area is being
    > > done by one person?!? That's cool, but doesn't it limit the speed at which
    > > forward progress can be made?
    >
    > The closest approximation my minds-eye can make of how things work
    > look something like this..
    >
    > h h h h h
    > \ | | | /
    > m m m
    > \ |/
    > ttt
    > |
    > l
    >
    > h - random j hacker working on same file/subsystem different goals
    > m - maintainer for file/subsys
    > t - "forked" tree maintainer (-ac, -dj, -aa etc..)
    > l - Linus
    >
    > Whilst development happens concurrently in parallel, the notion of
    > progress is somewhat serialised as changes work their way down to
    > Linus.

    In my message above, I specifically asked about any one area, asking if
    there was parallel development in that area. So far, noone has said "yes".
    If the answer was "yes", somebody in your fanin (nice ascii, BTW :) is
    merging. So the answer is either

    noone => no parallel development in any one area
    or
    someone

    If it is "someone", who is it?
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    Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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