>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0700 (PDT) >From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Linux needs new leadership. > >Fellow hackers, > >For some time I have felt unappreciated by some members of the Linux >community. Far too many of you like to whine and cry, saying "My patches >aren't being accepted by Linus, but they are by Alan or Michael!" >It seems that some of you are too stupid to follow the simple >instructions that I have made clear on more than one occasion. >This, combined with the fact that today is my last day at Transmeta, >has prompted me to consider rediscovering that balance I had in my life >before you all took my hobby and made it into a mass movement. I have >not decided who should take over maintenance of the kernel myself, for I >believe that this decision should be made in a quasi-democratic >fashion. While democracy has not worked well with this group of people >before, I am willing to give it one last chance. > >However, I do have some opinions on who should succeed me as leader >of kernel development. I will provide my opinions below as I am >entitled to do so. Below is an alphabetical list of my nominations. >I include a brief explanation of why I nominated them and any concerns >I may have. You all should do the same for your nominations. > >Alan Cox: Alan has done a spectacular job of maintaining the 2.2 branch > ever since I embarked on the development branch. He would have been an > automatic choice for this job, except for his childish refusal to > travel to the US, where all the real kernel hackers hang out. > Marcello has proven to me, however, that you do not need to live > in a technology-rich country such as the US to be a leader of > kernel development. > >Matt Dillon: Whenever someone moans about the 2.4 VM fiasco, > I think to myself, "I wish Matt hadn't left the Linux kernel > development for FreeBSD!" I believe that if Matt were to be chosen > as leader, we would have had a sane and working VM on par with > FreeBSD's months ago. While he has little leadership experience, he > is a member of FreeBSD-core, a position which certainly demands > respect. > >Eric S. Raymond: Being leader of kernel development involves > fielding a significant amount of media attention. ESR has shown > on many occasions that he can talk shit and still sound just as > convincing as anyone on this list, all the time being completely > oblivious to any contrasting viewpoints. While his > kernel-configuration-adventure-game contribution to Linux just > screams out "worthless bloat", I must admit to having enjoyed > many a lonely night playing the game. If he could lay a similar > interface over gdb, I'm sure that more kernel hackers would > actually debug their work before submitting it. > >Richard M. Stallman: RMS has an exceptional track record in the > open-source field, being largely responsible for my favorite text > editor, compiler, and debugger. No other open-source hacker has > come as close as he has to replicating the integration available > with Microsoft Visual C++ 6 years ago. I fully endorse him as a > candidate, assuming he's willing to drop his puerile "GNU/Linux" > ego stroking. > >Theo de Raadt: Theo is an exceptional candidate. Not only is he a > more than adequate hacker; he attracts exactly the type of people > to OpenBSD that he wants, and will jettison those who are not up to > the task. While purging out all the less-than-adequate hackers > in the Linux project will inevitably attract negative publicity > from Slashdot and other "community" sites where these feeble hackers > hang out, it will no doubt strengthen Linux in the future. Just > look at what Theo's strong leadership has done for OpenBSD! He > turned around the worthless "research project" that was NetBSD and > made it an enterprise-class firewall system. I can only imagine > the effect his Midas touch could have on the Linux kernel. > >You have until the end of April 1, 23:59 Pacific Time to submit your >nominations to the list. The most nominated person will become the leader >of kernel development. I will examine the list of nominations and, >assuming that the winner wants the job, I will hand full control over to >them. I know that this is short notice, but knowing how obsessively most >of you check your inboxes, I figure you should have more than adequate >time to submit your recommendations. The decision will be final and no >discussion will be considered after it has been made, so choose >carefully. > >Thank you. > > Linus > >----- End forwarded message -----
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