Quotes of the week

The problem is that SystemTap hasn't really benefited from community based innovation largely because it doesn't have much of a community. The bigger picture problem Red Hat didn't see when they accepted the cash was that this project wouldn't generate a community just from the usual publish the code and they will come philosophy. The result is what we see to day: a klunky and accident prone tool that has sun engineers writing trite little homilies on the benefits of a planned political operating system.

Think about some of the evil perpetrated by hal and the userspace suspend-resume scripts (and how much complexity with random XML fragments getting parsed by various dbus plugins), and tell me with a straight face that you would trust these modern-day desktop application writers with this interface. Because they *will* find some interesting way to (ab)use it.....

It's readily obvious that people (ie: top-level maintainers) aren't even compile-testing their own stuff once it's merged into linux-next. You say (but don't provide evidence that) linux-next is too unstable to develop against. Well guess why? Because people are choosing to let it be that way.