Messages in this thread |  | | From | Tim Hockin <> | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:03:01 -0800 (PST) |
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At 09:43 PM 11/30/01 -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> Most of the bad-but-not-obviously-bad ideas get rooted out by people trying > them and finding them to be wanting. Take, for example, the VM flap in the > Ahh right, like the OOM killer. There's a brilliant idea that got rooted out to where it belongs...
> The "Linux Way" as I understand it is to release early and release > often. That means that we go through a "generation" of released code every
And disregard the "mutations" that have already been "selected for" (to carry the analogy) in other systems. And disregard any edge-case that is "too hard" or "too rare" or "involves serious testing".
> Now that I've stretched the analogy as far as I care to, I will stop > now. Please consider the life-cycle of the kernel when thinking about what > Linus said.
I can't consider joe.random developer adding a feature as a "mutation". It's just not analogous in my mind.
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