But your initial argument was that removal - even of something nobody uses- adds no value. From that perspective I think you believe any change which doesn't tie to marketable feature adds no value.
If that is the case then you will be vehemently opposed to most of the work I'm doing for illumos core. Most of this work is designed to make life better for developers who build products on top of illumos, as opposed to adding customer visible features. Frankly this attitude is pervasive enough in our community that I'm at the point where I will just keep working in my fork and give up even any attempt to upstream my work. I simply have not got the energy to try to maintain stuff last used in the nineties or to argue about why attempts to do so are a fools errand. Yes this crap holds me back. Every Makefile I have to touch makes it harder to modernize our build environment to support cross compilation, modern compilers, etc. and I'm not the only one. Many people pay this pain many times over. Technical debt costs interest. I am looking to pay down on principle and minimize the debt. I see may be the only one willing to do this. This is not new. When I founded the illumos community it was because I was the only one willing and able to do the work to make an open libc. Even though this problem was five years old when I tackled it. These other problems are no different. Like that problem they are not sexy. They don't generate VC investment on their own. But this community and many of the businesses which depend on it simply wouldn't exist without someone to do this work. You are welcome. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 8, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Richard Elling <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Nov 8, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-developer >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Spoken like a true MBA without any real understanding of technical debt. > > Technical debt is your problem, don't pass it onto your customer or your > product will die. > -- richard > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
