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Top Linux Developers Losing the Will To Code?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the will-hack-for-food dept.

E5Rebel noted that Don Marti has a piece that talks about "Core Linux developers are finding themselves managing and checking, rather than coding, as the number of kernel contributors grows and the contributor network becomes more complex."

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  1. will has nothing to do with it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the talented get promoted to managing because they care about what's happening, how it gets done, and they know what's going on. This doesn't equate to "I don't feel like coding" as the article suggests.

    "That's all I do, is read patches these days," he said during a discussion at the Linux Symposium in Ottawa last month.

    This doesn't read "I don't want to code" it reads "I haven't time to code"

  2. a good or bad thing? by brunascle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    that's odd. the linux.com article covering the same event made it sound like the kernel team thought it was a good thing that there were more developers, and the work was more spread out.

  3. Re:Book needed by fattmatt · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/