06 September 2010

The Ruby Reflector

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Linus

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By campsean of How Software is Built 10 months ago.
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And then I send stuff off to Linus. So, Linus trusts 10 to 15 people, and I trust 10 to 15 people. And I'm one of the subsystem maintainers. So, it's a big, giant web of trust helping this go on.

We've developed some procedures that help guide how and when we do merges and releases. And we've a very regular release schedule: every three months, we do a release. We have a two-week merge window, and all those patches in that merge window have to have been tested. We've …

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By campsean of How Software is Built 11 months ago.
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This interview reminds me a little of those sci-fi stories that start with the

big bang, and end 40 billion years in the future. Con Zymaris has the

depth of experience to pull this off in the software space, offering some very

astute insights and provacative food for though along the way.

The early days of computing as the foundations for open source

Open source growing up alongside proprietary technology

Circumstances that led to the dominance of Linux among open OSs

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