Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:46:12 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool |
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* Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:33:33AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > So no, your kind of cynical, defeatist sentiment about code quality is by > > no means true in my experience. Projects become ugly gooballs once > > maintainers stop caring enough. > > In case of Qemu it was other way around. Maintainers started caring too late.
Nah, i do not think it's ever too late to care.
Example: arch/i386 - arch/x86_64/ was very messy for many, many years and we turned it around and can be proud of arch/x86/ today - but i guess i'm somewhat biased there ;-)
In my experience it's entirely possible to turn a messy gooball into something you can be proud of - it's all reversible. Start small, with the core bits you care about most - then extend those concepts to other areas of the code base, gradually. There might be subsystems that will never turn around before becoming obsolete - that's not a big problem.
Thanks,
Ingo
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