Re: [MiNT] What's in, what's out?

[Teemu Hukkanen <tjhukkan@fishpool.fi>]

joska@nuts.edu (Jo Even Skarstein) writes:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:35:40 +0100, Frank Naumann wrote:
> 
> > For myself I don't like this discussion. I never thought that my work is
> > so contentious. I don't have the time and I don't want to discuss every
> > new feature or change here on the list. I do this in my spare time and it
> > make lot of fun. But for this I need some freedom.
> 
> I agree with Frank. To achieve some efficiency you have to trust a small
> group of people to do the right decisions. Look at Linux or PHP, how much
> progress would be done if all it's contributors (and quite a few more in
> this case) would have to achieve full agreement on every little thing?
> That's why the core group in PHP consists of only four persons.

And the linux-kernel core group consists of a single person.
Yes, that form of management can be efficient, but it can also lead to
forks and slow development (the core group might not want certain
features to be included at all).