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Torvalds Says It's No Picnic To Become Major Linux Coder
Jack Spine writes "Linus Torvalds has given an interview to ZDNet.co.uk about the trials and tribulations of becoming a Linux kernel developer. 'Torvalds said that, while it is relatively easy for coders and organisations to contribute small patches, the contribution of large patches, developed in isolation, could lead to both new and established contributors becoming frustrated.
"It's definitely not easy to become a 'big contributor'," wrote Torvalds. "For one thing, the kernel is quite complex and big, and it inevitably simply takes time to learn all the rules — not just for the code, but for how the whole development environment works. Similarly, for a new developer, it will take time before people start recognising the name and start trusting the developer to do the right things.""
If that's the problem, wouldn't it be easier to work on it if it was a microkernel?
Circumcision is child abuse.
You forgetting these are full-time kernel developers. They would offer their firstborn son in exchange for a 0.049% better scheduler if they could ever have partners.
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
Mod parent down. I don't recognize him, therefore he can't know what he's talking about.
At Microsoft, working on the kernel pays as a fulltime job
They pay monkeys to bash keys nowadays?
Can you explain your point of view with a car analogy, please?