Re: ISDN and the feature freeze (was: no driver change for 2.4?)

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Fri, 6 Aug 1999 07:27:53 +0200 (MEST)

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> >
> > I think that the ISDN "peer-review" is taking place on different
> > mailing lists than what you (and I) read.
>
> Common mistake: peer review does NOT mean that the code should be looked
> at by the same people who write it.

Right.

> Peer review is _meaningless_ under those circumstances. The whole point of
> getting peer review is to find _different_ people who have a different
> background to look at your code.

So there is varied bunch of people hanging around on "linux-kernel"
who look at various bits and pieces. So there is a bunch of people on
"i4ldeveloper" who look at various bits and pieces.

>From a distance, the i4l -list looks as if it's "the bunch of
developers who write the ISDN code". From the outside (e.g. from the
point-of-view of someone at Microsoft) it looks as if the crowd on
linux-kernel is "the bunch of developers who write the Linux kernel".

What's the difference? A set of people who you think are capable of
peer-reviewing code are not in the loop on the ISDN code. That
includes yourself. You like being in control. It is one of the rights
you earn by starting your own unix-like operating system......

So, the ISDN guys should get their act together, and find a solution
for all this.

Roger.

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