Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Apr 06 2011 - 05:33:51 EST



* Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sure, any succcesful project becomes an ugly gooball. It's almost a
> compliment.

I disagree strongly with that sentiment and there's several good counter
examples:

- the Git project is also highly successful and is kept very clean (and has a
project size comparable to Qemu)

- the Linux kernel is also very clean in all areas i care about and has most
of its ugliness stuffed into drivers/staging/ (and has a project size more
than an order of magnitude larger than Qemu).

In fact i claim the exact opposite: certain types of projects can only grow
beyond a certain size and stay healthy if they are *not* ugly gooballs.

Examples: X11 and GCC - both were struggling for years to break through magic
invisible barriers of growth and IMHO a lot of it had to do with the lack of
code (and development model) cleanliness.

So no, your kind of cynical, defeatist sentiment about code quality is by no
means true in my experience. Projects become ugly gooballs once maintainers
stop caring enough.

Thanks,

Ingo
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