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Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 is here

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Post by sliverstorm »

jordan0day wrote: post #18

One the one hand, the "benevolent dictator" model has shown itself to work pretty well for Linux, compared to some major failings of the "committee" model on other projects. On the other hand, does anyone think the fact that "major" changes can be done by one person who is "just going all alpha-male" will potentially spook people? I mean, I doubt too many people here on hn have a problem with Linus' personality. I im…

It's free, it's open source. If you've got a problem with how Linus does things, you can always fork it.

Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 is here

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Post by steevdave »

jordan0day wrote: post #18

One the one hand, the "benevolent dictator" model has shown itself to work pretty well for Linux, compared to some major failings of the "committee" model on other projects. On the other hand, does anyone think the fact that "major" changes can be done by one person who is "just going all alpha-male" will potentially spook people? I mean, I doubt too many people here on hn have a problem with Linus' personality. I im…

I'm not entirely sure why you would... My boss doesn't know what kernel version we run, all he cares is that it works.

Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 is here

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Post by esrauch »

jordan0day wrote: post #18

One the one hand, the "benevolent dictator" model has shown itself to work pretty well for Linux, compared to some major failings of the "committee" model on other projects. On the other hand, does anyone think the fact that "major" changes can be done by one person who is "just going all alpha-male" will potentially spook people? I mean, I doubt too many people here on hn have a problem with Linus' personality. I im…

You think linus is the second best hacker?

Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 is here

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Post by bryansum »

esrauch wrote: post #23
jordan0day wrote: post #18

One the one hand, the "benevolent dictator" model has shown itself to work pretty well for Linux, compared to some major failings of the "committee" model on other projects. On the other hand, does anyone think the fact that "major" changes can be done by one person who is "just going all alpha-male" will potentially spook people? I mean, I doubt too many people here on hn have a problem with Linus' personality. I im…

You think linus is the second best hacker?

pe·nul·ti·mate/peˈnəltəmit/

Adjective: Last but one in a series of things; second last: "the penultimate chapter of the book".

Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 is here

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Post by kronusaturn »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #17
j2d2j2d2 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It shouldn't. Open source version numbers greater than 1.0 dont mean a whole lot. Chrome, the browser, around version 8 (give or take). How much sense does that make?

Yeah, I know. At one time though, version numbering was used as a signal to other developers that relied on your software. Changing the major version number indicated a large change -- either API, or architectural, or both -- that was expected to break software that relied on it. So then, as an end-user, it was easy to keep track of which pieces were likely to be compatible with which other pieces; if your add-on or…

Linux has kept its main public interfaces stable for all of its several hundred post-1.0 releases, so using that scheme would mean Linux would have to use rather odd-looking version numbers like 1.632.5

Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 is here

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Post by jordan0day »

esrauch wrote: post #23
jordan0day wrote: post #18

One the one hand, the "benevolent dictator" model has shown itself to work pretty well for Linux, compared to some major failings of the "committee" model on other projects. On the other hand, does anyone think the fact that "major" changes can be done by one person who is "just going all alpha-male" will potentially spook people? I mean, I doubt too many people here on hn have a problem with Linus' personality. I im…

You think linus is the second best hacker?

It appears my understanding of that word was faulty. I always thought it meant something along the lines of first-rate, I didn't realize it had such a specific meaning. TIL, I suppose.

Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 is here

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Post by cookiecaper »

j2d2j2d2 wrote: post #16
thaumaturgy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, nice. "Major version? Minor version? Revision? What're those? I like round numbers." Why not just go to a basic increment (Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, ...), or a date-based (Linux 2011! Now with new ribbon interface!) numbering instead? ...eh. I dunno why this bothers me so much.

It shouldn't. Open source version numbers greater than 1.0 dont mean a whole lot. Chrome, the browser, around version 8 (give or take). How much sense does that make?

Chrome is on version #11 in stable. #12 and #13 are in beta and dev respectively.

Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 is here

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Post by stephen_g »

aclark wrote: post #14

I know they invented git, but that website sure is fugly. Time to switch to github, perhaps :-).

Why do you care what it looks like? It's whether it works well that is really important for a tool like this (that pretty much only the devs are going to use).

It's not actually great on that front either though, but the point still stands. I prefer cgit[1] myself (as it's a lot more usable). It's quite mature and used by Freedesktop [2] and Gnome [3]. If people are really worried by how it looks you can easily add your own header, footer, and alter the CSS.

I hadn't seen Gitalist (that marchdown posted) though. Looks pretty good but I wasn't that impressed by the usability of the demo though. But that will probably improve in time.

1. http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/ 2. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ 3. http://git.gnome.org/browse/

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