linux-kernel - Re: Designers and Builders (was: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?)

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Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:31:26 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Designers and Builders (was: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?)

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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