Hector Martin resigns from Asahi Linux

[Hrafn]

To be fair, I think Linux Sys V APIs are still rather wonky, as they've focused more on the newer POSIX pieces. But it certainly got some momentum behind it over the years and I'd say it's evolved noticeably since the late 90s and early 2000s when I was running Yellow Dog on an 8600. .


Oh hey. Something I actually worked on.

To be fair, CE was crap.

 

[Nycturne]

To be fair, CE was crap.

Don't really disagree. My response was more of "oh hey, someone actually used the damn thing."

 

[Andropov]

If you work for a smaller company, relish that you don't have to deal with this sort of thing on the regular. I find that larger companies also tend to start picking up behaviors like this as they grow, and the politics can get rather messy quickly because there's a bunch of these sorts of guys in the mix, both in management and as technical leadership (architects in my neck of the woods).

I guess another factor in the equation is how old the company is. I'd assume that these fiefdoms don't get created overnight. Though, sadly, I have realized that a company doesn't need to be that large for people to stop caring about breaking other team's features (or the general UX of the product). It's quite hard to tackle any issue that requires all developers to have a different mindset when approaching a specific problem, even beyond 20-30 people.

How I read the "No one will force you to learn Rust" stance was to try to win over maintainers by having the Rust 4 Linux maintainers take on the burden of the Rust bindings/etc early on. When a project is run as a series of fiefdoms, sometimes you have to start by appeasing the local feudal lords like the guy in the video.

Yeah, I'm not even against taking such a stance at first, I understand why they did it. But it's been a few years now, it's a bit frustrating that the stance hasn't changed (for people trying to push Rust for Linux, it's obviously more than a bit frustrating).

Although, to be honest, I thought the issue in the video had happened at least a couple years ago. I'm quite surprised to see that the video is just 7 months old. I guess my perception of time is a bit broken with so many things happening in the world

 

[Nycturne]

I guess another factor in the equation is how old the company is. I'd assume that these fiefdoms don't get created overnight. Though, sadly, I have realized that a company doesn't need to be that large for people to stop caring about breaking other team's features (or the general UX of the product). It's quite hard to tackle any issue that requires all developers to have a different mindset when approaching a specific problem, even beyond 20-30 people.

Agreed.

Although, to be honest, I thought the issue in the video had happened at least a couple years ago. I'm quite surprised to see that the video is just 7 months old. I guess my perception of time is a bit broken with so many things happening in the world

I feel this.