Torvalds & Linux Dev Process

sebFlyte writes "Builder UK is reporting that Linus Torvalds is concerned that the Linux production kernel maintainence process might be overly taxing Andrew Morton, saying: "One issue is that I actually worry that Andrew will at some point be where I was a couple of years ago -- overworked and stressed out by just tons and tons of patches. If Andrew burns out, we'll all suffer hugely." Morton himself wants to make -mm releases more often. He sees bugs as more of a problem, rather than patches themselves. His solution is simple: "I'd like to release -mm's more often and I'd like -mm to have less of a wild-and-crappy reputation. Both of these would happen if originators were to test their stuff more carefully.""

Comments

One person can affect so much...?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow...One person can affect the linux development process totally.. We got a great process!..Heck - who cares...Linux is never going to be mainstream and we will always be less than 10% of market...

Re:I haven't moved to 2.6, others haven't either?

[diegocgteleline.es]

I still haven't even bothered to move to 2.6.x as I have no reason to

Well, what a insightful commentary - you don't update because you can't find a reason. Don't intented to sound trolly, but you don't seem to have reasons for not doing it, either ;)

IOW: You don't update because you don't feel like doing it. That's OK. There's people running 2.0 & 2.2 kernels out there. It's just that I fail to see why this is so relevant ;)