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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Designers and Builders (was: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:31:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26616.1188484286@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:31:24 +0300." <200708300731.24413.a1426z@gawab.com>

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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:31:24 +0300, Al Boldi said:
> Adrian Bunk wrote
> > Tracking feature or implementation suggestions wouldn't make sense.
> > Consider e.g. that there are several people on linux-kernel who often
> > write what they think the kernel should do but who never write a single
> > line of code themselves. There's no value in tracking such stuff.
> 
> There are designers, and there are builders.
> 
> Can you tell me who is more important?

The problem is not builders, or designers - this list has plenty of both.

What Adrian is talking about are the people who go to designers and say
"Build me something blue, with a design that doesn't work with the VFS".

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-30 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30  4:31 Al Boldi
2007-08-30  7:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-30 13:54   ` Al Boldi
2007-08-30 14:17     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-30 14:50       ` Al Boldi
2007-08-30 14:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2007-08-30 23:25   ` Alan Cox
2007-08-31  4:30     ` Al Boldi

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