April mop, Yip.. Jangan dihiraukan. Beredar di milis internal kami pas 1 april, jadi too obvious bohongnya.
thx, ./tumpal ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Yahya Sjarifuddin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:09 AM Subject: [aktivis] Linux needs new leadership | FYI. apakah ini akhir dari linux? gimana nasib open source? | Atau cuma April mop? :-) btw, mau pilih siapa? :-) | | Salam | Yahya. | | http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-13/0063.html | | Fellow hackers, | | For some time I have felt unappreciated by some members of the Linux | community. Far too many of you like to whine and cry, saying "My patches | aren't being accepted by Linus, but they are by Alan or Michael!" | It seems that some of you are too stupid to follow the simple | instructions that I have made clear on more than one occasion. | This, combined with the fact that today is my last day at Transmeta, | has prompted me to consider rediscovering that balance I had in my life | before you all took my hobby and made it into a mass movement. I have | not decided who should take over maintenance of the kernel myself, for I | believe that this decision should be made in a quasi-democratic | fashion. While democracy has not worked well with this group of people | before, I am willing to give it one last chance. | | | However, I do have some opinions on who should succeed me as leader | of kernel development. I will provide my opinions below as I am | entitled to do so. Below is an alphabetical list of my nominations. | I include a brief explanation of why I nominated them and any concerns | I may have. You all should do the same for your nominations. | | | Alan Cox: Alan has done a spectacular job of maintaining the 2.2 branch | ever since I embarked on the development branch. He would have been an | automatic choice for this job, except for his childish refusal to | travel to the US, where all the real kernel hackers hang out. | Marcello has proven to me, however, that you do not need to live | in a technology-rich country such as the US to be a leader of | kernel development. | | | Matt Dillon: Whenever someone moans about the 2.4 VM fiasco, | I think to myself, "I wish Matt hadn't left the Linux kernel | development for FreeBSD!" I believe that if Matt were to be chosen | as leader, we would have had a sane and working VM on par with | FreeBSD's months ago. While he has little leadership experience, he | is a member of FreeBSD-core, a position which certainly demands | respect. | | | Eric S. Raymond: Being leader of kernel development involves | fielding a significant amount of media attention. ESR has shown | on many occasions that he can talk shit and still sound just as | convincing as anyone on this list, all the time being completely | oblivious to any contrasting viewpoints. While his | kernel-configuration-adventure-game contribution to Linux just | screams out "worthless bloat", I must admit to having enjoyed | many a lonely night playing the game. If he could lay a similar | interface over gdb, I'm sure that more kernel hackers would | actually debug their work before submitting it. | | | Richard M. Stallman: RMS has an exceptional track record in the | open-source field, being largely responsible for my favorite text | editor, compiler, and debugger. No other open-source hacker has | come as close as he has to replicating the integration available | with Microsoft Visual C++ 6 years ago. I fully endorse him as a | candidate, assuming he's willing to drop his puerile "GNU/Linux" | ego stroking. | | | Theo de Raadt: Theo is an exceptional candidate. Not only is he a | more than adequate hacker; he attracts exactly the type of people | to OpenBSD that he wants, and will jettison those who are not up to | the task. While purging out all the less-than-adequate hackers | in the Linux project will inevitably attract negative publicity | from Slashdot and other "community" sites where these feeble hackers | hang out, it will no doubt strengthen Linux in the future. Just | look at what Theo's strong leadership has done for OpenBSD! He | turned around the worthless "research project" that was NetBSD and | made it an enterprise-class firewall system. I can only imagine | the effect his Midas touch could have on the Linux kernel. | | | You have until the end of April 1, 23:59 Pacific Time to submit your | nominations to the list. The most nominated person will become the leader | of kernel development. I will examine the list of nominations and, | assuming that the winner wants the job, I will hand full control over to | them. I know that this is short notice, but knowing how obsessively most | of you check your inboxes, I figure you should have more than adequate | time to submit your recommendations. The decision will be final and no | discussion will be considered after it has been made, so choose | carefully. | | | Thank you. | | | Linus | | | -- | Utk berhenti langganan, kirim email ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Informasi arsip di http://www.linux.or.id/milis.php3 | -- Utk berhenti langganan, kirim email ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Informasi arsip di http://www.linux.or.id/milis.php3
