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

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Message-Id: <200708310730.40500.a1426z@gawab.com>
Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:30:40 +0300
From:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Designers and Builders (was: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?)

Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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".
>
> And the real test of whether someone is a good engineer or a dodgy
> consultant then follows. The engineer says "no" the consultant says
> "it'll cost ya" ;)

And the realist may say: look there is a middle way that reduces complexity 
many-folds and still gets us what we want.

> Humour aside don;t knock the people who have the ideas - in amongst all
> the people wanting something that is insane are aluable pieces of
> information if you can ever work them out - What they actually *want*
> to be able to do, and sometimes ideas that are ones people used to the
> technology wouldn't have - most are silly but just occasionally you get
> the "that would be silly, we'd have to umm, interesting maybe we could,
> I'll get back to you" type ideas.

Exactly, and that's what makes these ideas so valuable.


Thanks!

--
Al

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