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    SubjectRe: Designers and Builders (was: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?)
    On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:31:24AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
    > Adrian Bunk wrote
    > > Tracking feature or implementation suggestions wouldn't make sense.
    > > Consider e.g. that there are several people on linux-kernel who often
    > > write what they think the kernel should do but who never write a single
    > > line of code themselves. There's no value in tracking such stuff.
    >
    > There are designers, and there are builders.
    >
    > Can you tell me who is more important?

    That's a distinction that doesn't exist in practice:

    Designing kernel features requires good knowledge of the area of the
    kernel that should be changed.

    IOW: If you don't have the skills to implement it yourself you don't
    have the skills to do any good design.

    > Thanks!
    > Al

    cu
    Adrian

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