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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:

> So that means that pretty much 100% of development to any one area is being
> done by one person?!?   That's cool, but doesn't it limit the speed at which
> forward progress can be made?

The closest approximation my minds-eye can make of how things work
look something like this..

h h h h h
\ | | | /
 m  m m
  \ |/
  ttt
   |
   l

h - random j hacker working on same file/subsystem different goals
m - maintainer for file/subsys
t - "forked" tree maintainer (-ac, -dj, -aa etc..)
l - Linus

Whilst development happens concurrently in parallel, the notion of
progress is somewhat serialised as changes work their way down to
Linus.

(This whole thing goes a little astray when random j hacker sends
 patches straight to Linus bypassing everyone else and they get
 merged, but the controlled anarchy prevails and everyone somehow
 gets back in sync).

Dave.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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