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Kernel Contributor Corbet Says Linux Community Is 'Intimidating'

Posted by Soulskill on from the what-are-you-looking-at dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Key Linux kernel contributor Jonathan Corbet has admitted the developer community can be intimidating and hard to break into. He highlighted the issue during his Linux.conf.au presentation on the Linux kernel. Corbet expressed concern about the exclusivity of the kernel community, but says it's doing well regardless. He said in a period of just over a year, 55,000 individual changes from 2,700 developers (representing 370 employers) were made to the kernel, equaling 2.8 million lines of code. Corbet called the process 'alive and active.'"

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  1. Kolivas knows it best by recoiledsnake · · Score: 3, Informative

    He tried to break into the clique, but Linus preferred someone he knew who essential ripped off Kolivas' work instead of someone that did all the hard work.

    http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm

    http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm

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    1. Re:Kolivas knows it best by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 1, Informative

      "Glad you enjoyed it. The initial flamebait moderation made me think it would be buried."

      Everything you write runs the danger of being read. Your post being more conspicous is far from something you should wear as a badge of honour. When 5 misinformed people mod a post as informitive, it makes cluelessness much more visible to all whom have a clue. Also, you are assuming that people agree with you, rather than that they are just modding up the link so people can see one side of the story. There is a reason why it is not labeled: +1: this guy is correct in his opinion.

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  2. Corbet says *Kernel* community intimidating by jra · · Score: 4, Informative

    hard to break into.

    There, fixed that for ya.

    And let's note Jon knows whereof he speaks; he's not just the Editor/Publisher of the almost-10 year old LWN, he's also a fairly well-respected device driver author.

  3. The sentence was... by khellendros1984 · · Score: 2, Informative

    begun in the subject line.

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  4. Groklaw is a pioneer in clean discussions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    PJ has at least 100 spare hands to do the kind of moderation she does.

    She really is a robot :-)