Andrew Morton's keynote
Andrew's talk at lca was interesting, as ever. (I think he reads from a prepared text, which makes it a bit dry, but the text was good.)
One point is that every person who posts a patch to an open source project represents a person who not only has a problem, but cared enough to spend time attempting a fix. Andrew says every patch deserves at least some kind of response, and perhaps to be merged even if it's not the perfect fix. He takes the opposite position to Linus, who says his job is mostly to say no.
Development without a shared CVS server — whether by patches-over-mail or a distributed VCS — runs the risk of being too tough on people who want to put fixes in. I think I've made that mistake in the past.
posted Tue 26 Apr 2005 in /software/opensource | link
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