2011/3/31 FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]>: > Sounds like the importance of blueprints is overrated. If you look at > Linux kernel development (more than ten times developers and > development speed, I guess),
The Linux kernel development process uses a number of other approaches to deal with its volume. There a number of different staging trees. There are topic-based ones, like the one for people working on networking, the one for people working on block drivers, the one for people working on graphics, etc. There are also more "experimental" ones, like the -mm tree used to be. As I understand it, each of these have their own lieutenant, and every once in a while, it all gets merged into Linus' main tree. This way, the patch acceptance load is distributed across a number of lieutenants. > you see that lots of developers can work well without something like > blueprints. Just so we're clear: Linux has merge windows as well. New features simply do not get to go into mainline outside of these merge windows. It's not uncommon for changes to take several kernel releases from being proposed until they're actually accepted into the tree. Also, noone promises that your stuff will get reviewed. Ever. We do. If you propose stuff in time, we promise it will at least be reviewed once before feature freeze. > I don't think that openness and transparency are not related with > blueprints. You can simply discuss, make a decision, etc on public > mailing lists. That's merely transposing the exact same process, isn't it? If the goal is to have features described, whether you have to type it in one place or another shouldn't matter much. What does matter, though, is tracking. I think it's common consensus that mailing lists make *dreadful* bug trackers. I'm not sure I understand why it would be much better for tracking "blueprints" or whatever you'd call them in that context? -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer http://www.openstack.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
