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An open letter to Evgeniy Polyakov

Posted Nov 27, 2008 16:05 UTC (Thu) by ebirdie (subscriber, #512)
In reply to: An open letter to Evgeniy Polyakov by alfille
Parent article: An open letter to Evgeniy Polyakov

"Perhaps we need a role in kernel development for documenters."

A person to be taken as example:

Michael Kerrisk
http://lwn.net/Articles/247788/
A search with "michael kerrisk" gives 140 hits in Kernel content on lwn.net.

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An open letter to Evgeniy Polyakov

Posted Nov 29, 2008 2:07 UTC (Sat) by docwhat (subscriber, #40373) [Link]

Or perhaps developer facilitators. People who can essentially collect the issues from LKML and other devs, turn it into a bullet list and help the submitting developer meet that list.

Sort of a Dev. Personal Assistant...

Ciao!

An open letter to Evgeniy Polyakov

Posted Dec 1, 2008 3:13 UTC (Mon) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

Well, the problem is quite simple: there aren't many people who enjoy doing that. In the proprietary development world, you have to pay people to do that. Same with testing, reviewing, planning, and release control.

So the challenge isn't to get people to do the non-coding work; it's to find a way to use the fun coding work that is in great supply without also having the non-coding work.