Defragmenting the kernel development process

Posted Sep 14, 2019 22:36 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
Parent article: Defragmenting the kernel development process

> As the discussion wound down, Abbott suggested that what is needed is a kernel DevOps team populated with developers who are good at creating that sort of infrastructure.

That's the core issue. Tools and design choices will keep people bikesh... fascinated and busy discussing for years on end but without some actual and skilled manpower these discussions will forever keep going around in circles.

Speaking of manpower, so-called "DevOps" and validation roles have since forever been less respected/funded/promoted than nobler "developer" roles and the Linux kernel is not much worse than the rest of the industry. Maybe it's changing? Very slowly as any culture change. I think we're starting to see conferences on these topics, did any mention the kernel?

> The first session at the 2019 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit was a *last-minute addition to the schedule*.

Emphasis mine :-)