On Thursday 26 July 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> you dont _have to_ cooperative with the maintainer, but it's certainly > >> useful to work with good maintainers, if your goal is to improve Linux. > >> Or if for some reason communication is not working out fine then grow > >> into the job and replace the maintainer by doing a better job. > > > > The idea of growing into the job and replacing the maintainer by proving > > the you are doing better job was viable few years ago but may not be > > feasible today. > > IMO... Tejun is an excellent counter-example. He showed up as an
IMO this doesn't qualify as a counter-example here et all unless you are trying to say that Tejun does your job much better and that we should just replace you. ;) > independent developer, put a bunch of his own spare time and energy into > the codebase, and is probably libata's main engineer (in terms of code > output) today. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I think the Linux > community would be quite happy with him as the libata maintainer. Fully agreed on this part. > > The another problem is that sometimes it seems that independent developers > > has to go through more hops than entreprise ones and it is really > > frustrating > > experience for them. There is no conspiracy here - it is only the natural > > mechanism of trusting more in the code of people who you are working with > > more. > > I think Tejun is a counter-example here too :) Everyone's experience is > different, but from my perspective, Tejun "appeared out of nowhere" > producing good code, and so, it got merged rapidly. Tejun (like any of other developers) spent some time in-the-making and this time was in large part spent in the IDE-land, and yes I'm also very glad of the effects. :) Thanks, Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
