On 20 Nov 2007, at 17:09, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > I don't agree with these statements. Clearly one ought to have some > folks with sysadmin experience on an OS development team, but not > everyone on such a team needs sysadmin experience. Nor is it the case > that if you've not had sysadmin experience then you cannot comment on > SMF. To begin with, such demands are not practical.
Yes. I should have said something like: people who make architectural decisions should have (significant, recent) SA experience (and even this is not right). I certainly did not mean to imply that people without SA experience cannot comment on anything, and I'm sorry if what I wrote read that way. All I was really doing was expressing my own view (as someone who is currently an SA but has been a developer and may be again) that lack of input from people with serious SA experience leads to bad design and bad prioritisation of features in OSs. --tim
