Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 1997 14:14:06 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Take a deep breath... |
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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.
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> I'm a professional developer in my "real" life, and quite comfortable with > complex systems and concepts. However, kernel-level hacking brings me to
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> 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
-- 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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