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[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 10:52 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> said:
> > but it's far from easy for somebody who's 
> > not already an experienced upstream kernel developer to manage that, LKML is 
> > a tough place: there's politics making it hard for new contributors to get 
> > their stuff in, there are many rules (technical, cosmetic (i.e. code 
> > formatting rules), and social) you have to learn over the time,
> 
> I've heard this before, but I didn't find it to be that much different
> than any other project where I've contributed changes.  I think the
> biggest annoyance was that, because the kernel project is so big and
> hierarchical, you don't always get a lot of feedback (even when one of
> the maintainers picks up your patch in their tree to go upstream).

Me either. I'm not a coder, I don't really know anyone involved in
kernel development. Yet I have a bona fide kernel commit to my name -
f71cf2a2181aef25513272991f54148799ddc1f0 .

I notice multiple cases of Kevin complaining how political certain
projects are, and how much they hate outsiders, and how difficult it is
to get stuff committed to them. I note that the common link between all
these cases appears to be Kevin. Perhaps the problem isn't the projects,
after all?
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