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ANTHOLOGY — Maintaining maintainers (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Linux Kernel and the Midlife Crisis

Kara was telling me that your PhD had something to do with the Linux kernel. So can you tell me more? Yeah, absolutely. Three and a half years. Because that's what PhD takes. Or it can take more, but I did in three and a half. But yeah, so I looked at collaboration within the Linux kernels. And they don't use GitHub. It's patch diffs mailed back and forth on the mailing list. You get to reconnect with people. What's your favorite part of conferences like this? The people.

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