From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 0:15:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA21437B763 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 00:15:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA12414; Tue, 16 May 2000 16:45:42 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:45:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD Message-ID: <20000516164542.G10269@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 16 May 2000 at 8:47:31 +0000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/index.html > > (the headpiece of today's Salon). > > Here's Linus quoted inside on why he doesn't do source control: > > "The purely technical side of keeping track of the sources can be > handled by source control packages," says Torvalds, "but at least, in > my opinion, they actually tend to favor the approach of 'Let's put > this in now; if it turns out to be a mistake, we can always revert it > because we have source control.' And of course, nobody ever actually > does clean up anything. Or hardly ever. So I think the real problem in > computer science is to have quality control before it even hits the > distribution, and so far there isn't any other package than the human > brain that can do that job." > > This is so mind-boggingly... misguided?... I just don't know what to > say to this. I believe that even in the Linux community there is little understanding for this kind of attitude. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message