From: "Eyal Sohya" <linuz_kernel_q@hotmail.com>
To: merlin@transgeek.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:18:11 +0000
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But does our final arbiter intervene when he should ?
Would he step in to stop a discussion thread from becoming
a ego bash in the larger interests of the kernel ?


>From: Craig Christophel <merlin@transgeek.com>
>To: "Eyal Sohya" <linuz_kernel_q@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking
>Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 01:11:15 -0500
>
>The aggressive nature of the list is a result of people who have all spent 
>a
>great deal of time researching kernel internals.  It is much akin to a 
>thesis
>proposal and defense that you would see in an educational environment.  It
>may not be the most comfortable thing in the world, but it gets the base
>issues resolved, because if you do not know what is going on someone WILL
>tell you.  -- and then you revise and defend.   think of it as an academic
>discussion forum -- where people (usually) have the right to sound off.
>There is normally no harm done, although the recent MM discussions have 
>been
>a bit heated.
>
>
>
>Craig.
>
>
>
>On Tuesday 18 December 2001 00:20, Eyal Sohya wrote:
> > I've watched this List and have some questions to ask
> > which i would appreciate are answered. Some might not
> > have definite answers and we might be divided on them.
> >
> > 1. Are we satisfied with the source code control system ?
> > 2. Is there enough planning for documentation ? As another
> > poster mentioned, there are new API and we dont know about
> > them.
> > 3. There is no central bug tracking database. At least people
> > should know the status of the bugs they have found with some
> > releases.
> > 4. Aggressive nature of this mailing list itself may be a
> > turn off to many who would like to contribute.
> >
> >
> >
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