Proposed udpates policy change

Karel Zak kzak at redhat.com
Tue Mar 9 13:51:00 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:10:58PM +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 13:55:53 Seth Vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > Always when I see that someone is trying to introduce a new rule I
> > > have to ask myself ... why so large project like kernel is able to
> > > successfully exist for 20 years without a huge collection of rules?
> > 
> > the kernel has one rule which ends up working very well. The kernel has
> > the "its Linus' (and a few other people's) way or the highway".
> > 
> > Now, if you'd like to see fedora adopt that rule, I'd be curious to see
> > the results.

 It's not (only) about Linus. It's about working environment and
 strong focus on technical things.

 Please, read:
 http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ManagementStyle

> Yes, we don't have Linus here ;-) But usually I like his decisions - mostly 
> strongly technical ones based on arguments = less politics.

 Yes, less politics.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>


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