From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Justin Coffey <jqcoffey@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Macs and future unix derivatives
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:39:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210208183945.GJ13701@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMAV7_BVhZM3er=U3mM_EHq0tzDBkdp0Av=m8nCHgX=-y4T9_Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 10:32:03AM -0800, Justin Coffey wrote:
> My question then is, are there any examples of projects that maintained
> discipline, focus and relevance over years/decades that serve as counter
> examples to the above statement(s)? OpenBSD? Go? Is there anything to
> learn here?
I also think it is team size. We never had more than 8 engineers on
BitKeeper, and the core was really 4, and we kept adding features and the
main code topped out at 128K lines. It got to 120K or so pretty quickly
and then we just kept pushing for changesets that removed as much code
as they added, bonus points for when they removed more than they added.
I think if we had more people it would have been harder to keep things
small and clean.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-08 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-08 18:11 Will Senn
2021-02-08 18:21 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-08 18:32 ` Justin Coffey
2021-02-08 18:39 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-02-09 1:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-12 13:48 ` Angel M Alganza
2021-02-08 18:42 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-09 6:55 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-09 7:05 ` Michael Huff
2021-02-16 22:55 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-09 7:17 ` Will Senn
2021-02-09 19:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-10 1:34 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-09 22:59 ` Wesley Parish
2021-02-08 18:43 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-02-12 13:39 ` Angel M Alganza
2021-02-08 18:45 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-02-25 22:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-08 20:07 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-09 5:10 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 7:42 ` [TUHS] QNX John Gilmore
2021-02-09 11:03 ` Robert Brockway
2021-02-09 18:24 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-09 20:18 ` Jose R Valverde via TUHS
2021-02-09 14:05 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-09 3:58 [TUHS] Macs and future unix derivatives M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-09 4:07 ` Adam Thornton
2021-02-09 4:13 ` Will Senn
2021-02-09 5:21 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 5:29 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-09 6:37 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 16:13 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-09 17:31 ` John Cowan
2021-02-09 19:06 ` Chet Ramey
2021-02-10 2:31 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 19:00 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-10 1:41 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 1:52 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-10 2:24 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 2:44 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-10 3:10 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 20:03 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-02-10 2:57 ` Warner Losh
2021-02-10 2:56 ` Warner Losh
2021-02-10 3:02 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 3:53 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 11:34 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-02-09 18:29 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-09 8:30 Bakul Shah
2021-02-09 12:22 M Douglas McIlroy
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