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This is speculation based on external observation, nothing internal other than rumours: A big, increasing over last decade, chunk of that is fear that they wil
by p_l 10mo ago
This is speculation based on external observation, nothing internal other than rumours:
A big, increasing over last decade, chunk of that is fear that they will break the compatibility - or otherwise drop in shared knowledge. To the point that the more critical parts the less anyone wants to touch them (heard that ntfs.sys is essentially untouchable these days, for example).
And various rules that used to be sacrosanct are no longer followed, like the "main" branch of Windows source repository having to always build cleanly every night (fun thing - Microsoft is one of the origins of nightly builds as a practice)
- whizzter 10mo agoIt's probably a vicious cycle. Less people are trusted to touch ntfs.sys due to lack of experience, thus they never gain it and that in turn means less work and in turn means even less people have proved themselves trustworthy enough to work on it. Until nobody remains in the company that is trusted enough.