Messages in this thread | | | From | "Eyal Sohya" <> | Subject | Re: The direction linux is taking | Date | Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:18:11 +0000 |
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But does our final arbiter intervene when he should ? Would he step in to stop a discussion thread from becoming a ego bash in the larger interests of the kernel ?
>From: Craig Christophel <merlin@transgeek.com> >To: "Eyal Sohya" <linuz_kernel_q@hotmail.com> >CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking >Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 01:11:15 -0500 > >The aggressive nature of the list is a result of people who have all spent >a >great deal of time researching kernel internals. It is much akin to a >thesis >proposal and defense that you would see in an educational environment. It >may not be the most comfortable thing in the world, but it gets the base >issues resolved, because if you do not know what is going on someone WILL >tell you. -- and then you revise and defend. think of it as an academic >discussion forum -- where people (usually) have the right to sound off. >There is normally no harm done, although the recent MM discussions have >been >a bit heated. > > > >Craig. > > > >On Tuesday 18 December 2001 00:20, Eyal Sohya wrote: > > I've watched this List and have some questions to ask > > which i would appreciate are answered. Some might not > > have definite answers and we might be divided on them. > > > > 1. Are we satisfied with the source code control system ? > > 2. Is there enough planning for documentation ? As another > > poster mentioned, there are new API and we dont know about > > them. > > 3. There is no central bug tracking database. At least people > > should know the status of the bugs they have found with some > > releases. > > 4. Aggressive nature of this mailing list itself may be a > > turn off to many who would like to contribute. > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" >in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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