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Debian switching to EGLIBCDebian switching to EGLIBCPosted May 7, 2009 2:22 UTC (Thu) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC
Ulrich Drepper writes a lot of VERY good explanatory papers, and some great documentation as well as doing a huge amount of work on critical infrastructure we're ALL using. He's also insanely busy.
Even with this fork, he'll still be doing a large amount of the work going into each eglibc release, via merges with glibc upstream. If eglibc takes off and proves to work well, he'll hopefully consider merging things from it once they've matured that he might not have been too happy about introducing untried into glibc.
That sounds like a win to me. I just hope these don't become antagonistic forks where work is wasted on duplicating already-completed fixes and features, and on pointless flaming.
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Debian switching to EGLIBC Posted May 7, 2009 6:55 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yes, but this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ulrich is insanely busy
*because* he drives everyone else away so almost nobody helps other than Roland (who is helpful to a fault: if software developers had saints he'd be one). If you actively drive people off, you can't really decide not to do the parts of your maintenance position that *everyone* expects you to do because you're so busy: that you're busy is entirely your doing, and so should be its consequences.
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