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What an absolutely awful statement about one of the most successful community projects ever. Direction usually comes from the community and the maintainers just
by broodbucket 2y ago
What an absolutely awful statement about one of the most successful community projects ever. Direction usually comes from the community and the maintainers just steer it. Little in the kernel comes from maintainers saying "let's do X" and community members implementing it
- raverbashing 2y agoSee how slow Wayland progress has been for an example of my grudges with that model of development
- WesolyKubeczek 2y agoAlmost two decades later, for unexplicable reasons, every new client not piggybacking on an eatablished toolkit or a new toolkit/compositor struggles with clipboard support, I shit you not.
- SXX 2y ago> Little in the kernel comes from maintainers saying "let's do X" and community members implementing it Maintainers do steer direction of development though. A lot comes from maintainer saying "we are not accepting XYZ". Today we only have proper open source GPU drivers because people like David Airlie who stand for their principle against likes of Nvidia and AMD.