Auke Kok wrote: > On 03/30/10 03:43, David Greaves wrote: >> Michael Meeks wrote: >>> My views on this sort of Intel internal re-writing are well known. >>> There is a good way to do this: work with the existing guys on the >>> various bootchart projects out there, and try to draw them together. >>> That is the approach I took with bootchart2. It is also far, far less >>> wasteful of the scarce resources that we (collectively) have today to >>> work on tooling. >> +1 >> >>> There is a good way to do software development in community; and >>> IMNSHO >>> it doesn't look like this. We don't need yet-another bootchart >>> project[2] there are currently a handful (now +1). >> +1 >> >> >> Auke - I would suggest that you lead by example and make a conscious >> effort to >> say "NIH is not acceptable. We now know of external tools that are >> functionally >> equivalent to internal tools. We will drop the internal tool and work >> with the >> wider community." > > Nonsense :)
heh :) Could you clarify which bit is nonsense? Are you saying that NIH is acceptable? Or is re-implementing internally a good idea when you know of external equivalents? > Innovation comes from looking at an old good idea, and making a newer > and shinier implementation of it - not from shooting down good ideas > just because someone has already invented it... True. Those innovators get the best out of the community. However I suggest that the very *best* innovators don't just take the ideas of others and reimplement in the easiest way possible to their own advantage leaving those upon who's shoulders they climbed in the dust. They go the extra mile and reimplement in a way that reaches back down to enable the whole community to benefit. Those innovators give the most back to the community. Which is (/me just checks the copyright on bootchart.c... Intel Corporation...) Intel? Maybe in this case a small, efficient, in-memory data collection engine that could supplement the tools built around the other bootchart utilities. Sure bootchart is only a few lines of code - but I hope I'm arguing constructively to ensure bootchart isn't the thin end of the wedge. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
