On 6/16/07, Mark Rages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might be amused by Linus's anti-CVS talk: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
Or utterly offended. I was at that tech-talk. Things you should know before watching: * Linus has strong opinions about CVS and Subversion, and the people who use them. * Linus is often interpreted as being quite rude and offensive. He wasn't trying to be; he's trying to be casual and in the "in crowd" so to speak. Problem is, that style of discourse is fundamentally incompatible with the tech-talk format. He really pissed off a lot of Googlers that day, including Google's own repository administration staff, virtually guaranteeing that git will never even be a consideration for future use at Google. Of course, Linus doesn't care, but a lot of _us_ do. * Linus had no actual agenda for discussion, so he wanders around a bit aimlessly. Much of the hour is wasted rambling. Many people left the talk because of that. * Linus has many good points in the talk, but you really have to work and dig down deep to get at them, precisely because he wanders around aimlessly. * Linus loves to boast about himself and his kernel's merge performance. 4 times a day is darn impressive indeed! But you don't need to drill on it. It's all about me, me, me. And, how Linux is a HUGE code repository, and we're able to make use of git because nothing else would work (implied: for us), so everyone else should be able to benefit equally well too! (Never mind that Google's code repository is _mammothly_ huge compared to Linux's source tree, and we get by just fine, albeit with some friction, with our current centralized management system.) * Linus is extremely long-winded. There were lines of people dying to ask him questions about git, but because of his extremely long-winded answers, most just sat down (never to bother again) or left completely. Some even went to grab food and came back later, with Linus _still_ answering/rambling about some previous question. Personally, I didn't let anything he said get to me, even though I very much disagree with his "I'm right and you're wrong" stance on the issue. The talk could have been substantially less emotionally and ego driven and more responsive to audience questions, though. Just be prepared going in, and you'll be fine. :) -- Samuel A. Falvo II _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user