Quotes of the week

[Posted December 7, 2011 by corbet]

One thing I want to clear up is I do not actually care about building just because I think it's fun or interesting in and of itself. No, the reason I care about building is because if software doesn't build, then clearly it's not being run. And if it's not being run, then it's not being tested. And if it's not tested, then it will be crap. In other words, a competent build system is necessary for not producing crap (but not sufficient, obviously).

-- Colin Walters

The WebKitGTK+ hackers at the hackfest these days are not amused. They are thinking of declaring war on the Kingdom Of Extensions. Is it their fault? Do they need to send diplomats, or is a land war in Asia the only answer?

-- Bastien Nocera

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Posted Dec 8, 2011 4:42 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

the build system can be a huge barrier to getting contributions.

a prime example of this is the mulberry mail client. the code was released a couple of years ago, but only a handful of people have managed to jump through all the hoops to be able to actually build the code, which has crippled progress on updating the codebase.

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Posted Dec 8, 2011 13:51 UTC (Thu) by hadess (subscriber, #24252) [Link] (1 responses)

Original joke is Claudio Saavedra from the IRC channel we used during the WebKitGTK+ hackfest.

A bit disappointed that not one of the summaries about the hackfest made it to the development page on LWN though.

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Posted Dec 9, 2011 22:21 UTC (Fri) by alexl (subscriber, #19068) [Link]

Should have gotten lennart to write them!