3 Jan
2017
3 Jan
'17
12:36 p.m.
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
There is also a culture of the cool kids vs the not
cool kids. For example,
at Sun, the kernel group was the top of the heap. When I was doing nselite
which begat Teamware then BitKeeper then Git et al, I was in the kernel
group. They wanted me to go over to the tools group. I looked over there
and saw people that weren't as good as the kernel people and passed.
From looking at various changes, it is obvious that the
tools group also had
brilliant people, but it is also obvious that the tools in
general do not have
that overall quality level as seen in the kernel.
From looking at projects or features, it seems that the
kernel people did add
new ideas whenever they had the idea. From looking at the
progress made in the
tools, it seems that this mostly happened when a manager decided that it would
be time to put effort in a tool.
Jörg
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