LWN: Comments on "Folios merged for 5.16"

Folios merged for 5.16

Paf — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:29:19 +0000

A desire to thank them - which I share - is different from their getting paid.

Thanks to those involved - it has been incredibly hard to get any significant motion in this entire space, and I hope this will unblock further progress in this area.

Folios merged for 5.16

rsidd — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 08:35:20 +0000

What makes you think they aren't? Most are paid by large corporations to work on Linux (eg, Matthew Wilcox, author of the folio stuff, works for Oracle and mentions that in his sign-off on patches).

Folios merged for 5.16

edomaur — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:38:00 +0000

that too, but sending them some token of appreciation would be very nice

Folios merged for 5.16

notriddle — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 06:23:31 +0000

Maybe they should be paid fairly for their work.

Folios merged for 5.16

kragil — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 04:44:43 +0000

Maybe the LF should really set up something like buymeacoffee or Github sponsors.

Folios merged for 5.16

Cyberax — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 23:24:27 +0000

> Now the developers involved just have to do all of the other work identified as necessary to clean up the memory-management subsystem and isolate it from other parts of the kernel.

Can we buy gift baskets for the developers involved? Somehow?