On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:02:12 +0100 Jean-Marc <jean-m...@6jf.be> wrote:
> > This kind of discussion made me unsubscribing to Debian lists. > If all these people code only 10 lines everytime they troll, > we can get a brand new init-system in less than a month. > Does this code have to make sense, or can it be just random gibberish? How long is it going to take someone who can spare, say, three hours a week to learn enough to actually make a positive contribution, given that an experienced coder landed us with Heartbleed, and another with hugely insufficient randomness in Debian's ssh? I hack a bit of PIC assembler regularly, but not continuously. I know that if I have to modify something a year old that I won't even recognise the code, and will spend an hour or two understanding how it works. How long is it going to take to learn enough about the Linux ecosystem to make a useful contribution to a major system program? At a couple of hours a week? Given that the last C I did was about a quarter of a century ago, on an ARM with a half-megabyte OS? And an init built by committee, at ten lines a session? I wouldn't expect my *government* to use code built like that. You cannot, as one Mr McEnroe once said, be serious. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141111094000.5d5de...@jresid.jretrading.com
