In the European Open Source Summit held recently, Linus Torvalds was open to talk with the chief open source officer Dirk Hohndel VMware's. During, he said no longer think of themselves as a programmer.
Torvalds explained that he no longer understand coding, and now most of the code written in an e-mail. Every time someone sends a patch, he replies with pseudo-code. Torvalds now accustomed to edit patches, and sometimes untested patch will be sent directly. He has to do is to tell others in the mail, "I think it should be like this." "But this is what I do, and I'm not a programmer."
In fact Torvalds's work is not just content to read and write e-mail. He believes that the nature of their job is to say "no", someone or some patches PR like to say "no." In his view, if a developer that is likely to be rejected, it will be better to write code.
In short, today's managers and Linus Torvalds is the code defenders, rather than developers. Others respond quickly sent patches, timely give feedback, and keep maintenance status, Torvalds feel this good, this is a maintainer should do.
These may sound boring, after all, Linus Torvalds considered interesting people well-known, his early autobiography called "just for fun" (Just for Fun). Torvalds acknowledged this: "Maybe some not fun, we need to develop a lot of relatively arbitrary rule in the past, and now people's attitudes more seriously yes, I probably spent most read e-mail, but part of the reason is. Failure to do so, then I will be more boring. "
Finally, Torvalds also acknowledged that, although satisfied with doing things on Linux, but he remained skeptical of their ability. "I'm a self-doubts about Linux is that it's just reimplement Unix, right?" "I can give a better version of something?"
Source: ZDNet