Hi, On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:04:24PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Sun 22 Nov 2009 22:04:22 +0100, a écrit :
> > (BTW, I don't actually agree on the "really smart developers only" > > part either. Unless you are among those who believe that any work on > > the existing implementation is pointless, and only working on a new > > microkernel would provide any benefit...) > > The existing implementation needs really smart developers. It needs > not so smart developers too, but a lot of things that _need_ to be > fixed (e.g. including parts of perl testsuite failures, ghc6 failures, > I/O performance) probably won't be fixable without good skills. Sure, I don't question the need for smart developers... What I'm saying is that (unlike switching microkernels), the existing implementation requires a lot of less challenging work also -- it's just not true that we don't need many developers. -antrik-
