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On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 20:17 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> Now look at the LKML. It's often hard to find general discussion behind |
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> the truckloads of patches and river of technical review emails. A large |
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> proportion of the content is not "understandable" unless you have a good |
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> knowledge of C, operating systems, and the technical area in question. |
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> This isn't a place that users hang out, users dont really read it |
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> either, and you need to be a decent developer to get involved in the |
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> first place. |
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This is honestly one of the things I think is a problem with this list, |
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in particular. I hope to start trying to steer the "conversation" away |
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from this list and keep things on a more technical level. If things |
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start to go off-topic, you might likely get a response from me asking |
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you to either get back on-topic or to take it elsewhere. Looking back |
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over the flames we've seen recently, there's usually very little |
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technical discussion, if any. Instead it is heated argument over things |
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like beliefs (technical or otherwise) and politics, neither of which |
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really belong on a development list. I think if this list got back to |
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its core of being a *development* list, that many of the flames would |
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die down to an acceptable level. |
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Thank you for your insight, Daniel! |
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