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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:33:13 -0500
From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
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Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"
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Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:58:41 -0700 "Hua Zhong" <hzhong@cisco.com> escribi?:
>>The fact is, these days nobody wants to be a stable-release maintainer
>>anymore. It's boring.
> 
> I doubt it. People like Alan Cox or Marcello have done it in the past,

...and probably suffer emotional scars from the process.
Taming the patch stream must be like drinking from a fire hose
while herding angry, computer literate cats.
Wearing, but not boring.

In the words of Flipper: *squeeee* eh eh eh eh *squeeeee*

Translation:
"Maintaining a kernel source tree is more vexatious than a tuna net."

-- 
Paul Fulghum
paulkf@microgate.com
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