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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.""
Given how wildly unstable and crappy the 2.6 kernel has proven to be, maybe Windows and Linux need to switch to a more (Open||Net)BSD style approach to developing code: do it slow, do it right, and stop fucking around.
Seriously, I have yet to install a stable 2.6 kernel (which boots consistently, and I've tried ubuntu, debian, suse, and slackware on multiple computers. Linux (2.6) is far more unstable than windows at this point. (at least windows will boot consistently for fuck's sake!)
'slow' meaning they only officially release twice a year instead of 'omg it's Monday get something ANYTHING uploaded to kernel.org omg omg omg'.