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Problems with Linus are to be expected...Problems with Linus are to be expected...Posted Feb 3, 2006 3:29 UTC (Fri) by zblaxell (subscriber, #26385)Parent article: GPLv3 and the kernel
Linus follows an even/odd release cycle. Even-numbered months are stable, but during odd-numbered months Linus undergoes a lot of active development and never enough testing. Sometimes serious bugs are introduced during odd-numbered months, causing Linus to produce incorrect or unexpected results. During even-numbered months, tireless Linus maintainers work to fix the bugs and produce a stable kernel developer, then an odd-numbered month starts and the whole process starts over again.
Note that in the current case and the 4GB highmem case, Linus's categorical statements were issued in odd-numbered months. The highmem stuff IIRC was merged in an October, an even-numbered month, when Linus had been better debugged and was a lot more stable.
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Problems with Linus are to be expected... Posted Feb 3, 2006 9:01 UTC (Fri) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] I attended an Open Source seminar last Wednesday, and heard the following rather to the point quote: "The comments by Linus on GPL3 should be understood in the context that the new license is quite long and wordy and Linus is very lazy." ;-)
Problems with Linus are to be expected... Posted Feb 10, 2006 17:33 UTC (Fri) by sammythesnake (guest, #17693) [Link] It's true that "laziness" is a key feature of Linus' character, but I submit that it's a good thing, given that it's generally quite well marshalled. Laziness leads (via wisdom) to efficiency, and the evidence so far seems to be that Linus' laziness has actually had exactly that effect! :)
I remember reading in some o'reiley book that the three most important characteristics to have as a programmer included Hubris and Laziness (couldn't remember the third, but http://www.io.com/~shiva/ninevirtues.html suggests impatience)
Cheers & God bless
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