On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 04:39:34PM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > If we look at big projects like Linux, they have faced a similar issue > in the past and as I understand they solved it by using more adapted > tools and processes and they even ended up making their own software > tools (git, checkpatch.pl, etc) for the critical parts, and as I > understand there are also organizational flexibility (different > subsystems have different ways of working), and subsystems have their > own mailing list and so on, but they also kept the mailing list > model precisely because it scales well.
Overall nice email with a lot of well-considered points! One thing about how Linux solved these issues, is that it Linux became commercially valuable to the point where they pay people to maintain the code, which includes reviewing contributions. And still you can find endless complaints about their onerous contribution workflow. Of course, Linux has made many concessions to pragmatism, which had some effect on its commercial value. Guix is less concessionary so we will struggle to find funding on a proportional scale, in my opinion.
