Re: Linux needs new leadership.

[Jirat for Linux Kernel ML]

As today is the first of April (says April fool day), so I choose Tovald
Linus as my leader.

Cheers,
Jirat.

p.s. Is somebody laughing?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Linus Torvalds" <[e-mail]>
To: "Kernel Mailing List" <[e-mail]>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 03:00 PM
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
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