Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

Here is along reminiscence from Jon "maddog" Hall leading up to some thoughts onRed Hat's source-release policy changes.

Recently I have been seeing some cracks in the dike. As more andmore users of FOSS come on board, they put more and more demands ondevelopers whose numbers are not growing sufficiently fast enoughto keep all the software working.

I hear from FOSS developers that too few, and sometimes no,developers are working on blocks of code. Of course this can alsohappen to closed-source code, but this shortness hits mostly inareas that are not considered sexy", such as quality assurance,release engineering, documentation and translations.