lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2004]   [Mar]   [8]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: A Layered Kernel: Proposal
> While coding, think coding. While designing, think designing. Design comes
> before coding; otherwise you design while coding, and produce a mess.

You are describing, roughly, the waterfall model of software development.

Linux kernel work is closer to something resembling the prototype
and/or spiral model.

See further explanations of these terms, for instance, at:

http://model.mercuryinteractive.com/references/models/

But, in any case, Linux kernel work _does_ have a rather extensively
articulated development model which we find is working rather well,
thank-you. For all I know, this methodology was defined by some
traumatic event at the birth of Linus - whatever - seems to work.

When in Rome, do as the Romans. And especially don't be surprised
at being pushed aside if you protest that we aren't behaving as the
French.

--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373
-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:01    [W:0.118 / U:0.144 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site