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A Conversation with Linus Torvalds

on YouTube 25m
Interviewat Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 · on Wednesday, 2017-02-15· at 09:00· Grand Sierra Ballroom· [linux-and-operating-systems, open-source]

speaker

name:Linus Torvalds
x:linuxfoundation

resources

video:https://youtu.be/Efi9wa4Fwds
slides:none on file

summary

Kernel development runs at scale: roughly 10,000 lines added 8,000 removed 18,800 modified per day, code is organized into modules with maintainership chains of three to five people so thousands can work in parallel, quality comes from a social trust network not a single reviewer, git is the custom tool built for distributed workflows and grows alongside hosting platforms now totaling millions of repos, release rhythm settles at a ~2–2.5 month cycle with long-term stable trees for production use.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Welcome and introductions
  2. 2:01Linux development pace
  3. 4:58Trust in the community
  4. 9:47The evolution of Git
  5. 14:21Innovation and requirements
  6. 17:11Release cycle management
  7. 20:52Focusing on the real work

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