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An OLS wrapupAn OLS wrapupPosted Jul 28, 2005 8:21 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)Parent article: An OLS wrapup
Dave, who, among other things, is the current maintainer of Red Hat's kernels [...]Ehr? Are you saying that a single guy is responsible for maintaining all of Red Hat's kernels? Besides other things? I suppose he gets help from others, right?
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An OLS wrapup Posted Jul 28, 2005 10:07 UTC (Thu) by nigelm (subscriber, #622) [Link] Ehr? Are you saying that a single guy is responsible for maintaining all of Red Hat's kernels? Besides other things? I suppose he gets help from others, right? Actually Dave is one of the initial products of the Welsh Gnome Cloning Project. You may remember a while back that Linus said:- Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well. (see Wikiquote) Well Dave is a smaller collective of the Swansea Gnomes that broke away from the main Alan Cox collection. If you have seen Dave you will realise that this sure is the case.
An OLS wrapup Posted Jul 28, 2005 13:36 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] If you have seen Dave you will realise that this sure is the case.Don't know about the gnomes. In the picture above (Dave Jones and Andrew Morton) he looks a bit elvish, though.
An OLS wrapup Posted Jul 28, 2005 20:06 UTC (Thu) by davej (guest, #354) [Link] a small army of monkeys also help me. Oh, and various other Red Hat kernel hackers, but mostly those guys get their stuff upstream fast enough that my job is just packaging an upstream tarball into an rpm, and dealing with the bugzilla fallout.
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