Changes in glibc development

Posted Mar 28, 2012 12:54 UTC (Wed) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452)
Parent article: Changes in glibc development

I don't quite get all the hate comments toward Ulrich Drepper. Maybe proponents of good engineering decisions that Ulrich favoured over pragmatism did not have to speak as loud in discussions as the primary glibc maintainer was "on their side."

Ulrich did an awesome job at maintaining libc sanity over the years which I'm thankful for.

Incompetent engineers that are willing to avoid crashing by introducing strange bugs by chopping off parts of string with strlcpy() should really use a higher level interface than C library. Java, Perl, Go, Python are there for them. Same goes for performance.

Changes in glibc development

Posted Mar 28, 2012 18:20 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I think Uli is an excellent *developer*. I think he was not an excellent *maintainer*, because the job of a maintainer is not just to say no to everyone but also to nurture a development community so you don't have to do all the work yourself. This he manifestly failed to do. (The rate of bugfixing suggests that he didn't even keep up with the rate of bug reports, which is unsurprising as there is only one of him.)