From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,d71a6822cd2fec5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ea968aeb8c7f10d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Randall Edick Subject: Re: Do I Really Need A Supervisor? Date: 1997/03/17 Message-ID: <332D77DF.6956@ss5010.ca.boeing.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 226217878 Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: swsr22.ca.boeing.com References: <5g7u24$1jeg@uni.library.ucla.edu> <33285CC6.1CFB@ss5010.ca.boeing.com> <5ge9qr$gq$1@news.nyu.edu> Organization: The Boeing Company Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard Kenner wrote: > > But now, it seems everybody is developing packages for it and there's > all sort of incompatibily problem between (e.g.) versions of > libc, binutils, and GCC, to say nothing of multiple different object > file formats in use. > > These problems are due to lack of a central management. Thank you Richard for your work. Be careful what you wish for. How many levels of management do you want? How many project estimates do you want to do? How much time do you want to spend explaining to * levels what it is you want to do, and justifying it (explain for instance WHAT IS A COMPILER? and where do you bolt it ON? before you proceed). I didn't mean to imply that all management is bad. Certainly not. The problem is that there are a LOT of people who want to be managers and they all need a technical type i.e. donkey to justify it. Once this stuff starts it is VERY HARD TO STOP IT. Linux/GNU is a juicy excuse for bureacracy. When it happens it could kill it. The saving grace may be there not a lot of money in it. I don't think you want a central management group. You want a central TECHNICAL group. -- =============================================================== Randall Edick (I speak for myself) ================================================================