Best Quotes from the Linux Kernel Developer Panel (Linux.com) Linux.com
presents
a few quotes from the Kernel Developer Panel at the Linux Foundation
Collaboration
Summit. Kernel developers Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jens Axboe, Dave
Chinner, Matthew Garrett, and Mel Gorman participated in the panel
discussion, moderated by Jon Corbet. A video accompanies the article.
The Linux kernel is one of the largest collaborative software projects in the history of the world and has almost nothing in the way of formalized management structure. We have people who have a strong operating systems background who have been contributing code, and then we have people like me. I have a background in fruit fly genetics and yet someone lets me get close to the Linux kernel; this seems wrong. And then we have people who are genuinely kids in their bedroom. It's a miracle it works as well as it does. We should be astonished that we're able to get it so right so much of the time.
-- Matthew Garrett