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SubjectRe: Take a deep breath...
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Does anyone have any clue what makes any of us hack on this thing at
> > all? It's pretty simple, whats fun, interesting, and enjoyable to
> > work on, that is what we're going to hack on. Straight forward. I
> > happened to enjoy making a system solid, but not nearly as much as I
> > enjoy designing and implementing the latest and greatest.

[...]

> I'm a professional developer in my "real" life, and quite comfortable with
> complex systems and concepts. However, kernel-level hacking brings me to

[...]

> I almost guarantee that 10% more effort put into documentation and
> commenting would reap great rewards in terms of contributed input from the
> community at large. Then, you CAN go off and design and implement the
> "latest and greatest" - AFTER having paved the way for others to maintain
> and fine-tune the previous "latest and greatest".

IMHO, it takes more effort to document the code than to write it. That's my
experience with kernel hacking (and I touched a lot of the Linux/m68k kernel
code). So your 10% rule is not correct (and as a professional developer,
shouldn't you know that documentation is the hardest part? :-)

And the `real' kernel hackers have so much to do, and so many new ideas, that
they'd rather do what they like most: i.e. turning ideas into new code...

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/m68k on Amiga http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium



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