Toward a kernel maintainer's guide

Posted Nov 27, 2018 2:54 UTC (Tue) by unixbhaskar (guest, #44758)
Parent article: Toward a kernel maintainer's guide

Sounds interesting though. But, in practice "that's the way it is" is very difficult to get rid of and it will take way more time than one can imagine. And if it does, it will be a damn good thing to happen too.

Toward a kernel maintainer's guide

Posted Nov 27, 2018 10:25 UTC (Tue) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]

>"why do we have these differences in the first place?"
...should always draw the answer that we're adults working together in the varied ways that different people do.

Even if you find a common structure to the workflow, each person will deliver it in their own unique way, from their perspective on the tasks at hand or their understanding of the problem and its solutions to how they work through each task -- the challenge is to share enough information among a team responsible for common success so that people can make progress.

Cat herding teaches us that cats are going to be cats, so let's work with that to communicate and interact in ways which get the best from each kitteh.

K3n.