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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Posted Sep 18, 2008 12:06 UTC (Thu) by maks (subscriber, #32426)
In reply to: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem by jbailey
Parent article: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

hello jeff,

> Ubuntu hasn't managed to grow a culture of contributing upstream, even when
> they tried directly to do so. It just somehow never worked out. Having
> been there, I don't know what the right way to do that is.

easy they prefer to employ people who waffle all day long like the guy whose title is Community Manager, but can't write a single line of code.

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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Posted Sep 18, 2008 17:03 UTC (Thu) by crimsun (subscriber, #13750) [Link]

I fully respect your work with initramfs-tools and many more, but to lambast Jono Bacon as someone incapable of writing a single line of code is a bit much. He may not be a kernel plumber, but he has contributed to KDE, Jokosher, and others.

LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Posted Sep 19, 2008 5:53 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

The Ubuntu community is one of its greatest advantages: new users find it is friendly and helpful, and it's often quicker and easier to get problems solved through the Ubuntu forums than to pay for Windows support from Microsoft. It's also very hard for Microsoft or Apple to replicate this.

So the Community Manager is actually one of the most important people at Canonical, on a par with the gnarliest kernel hackers...