Re:Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale
by busterarm on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @01:07AM
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Linux is a highly focussed project trying to accomplish a single thing well and with rigorous standards.
If you have 100 developers working average US work schedules and making 5-10 commits per workday (debatable number, depends on culture, but i'm averaging between the "big" commit and lots of small commits), you're going to end up with 100k commits _per year_. And many large startups have a multiplier of that number of developers and they're much, much messier than kernel devs.
Referencing the ideal case as counter-example is a bit silly.
If you have 100 developers working average US work schedules and making 5-10 commits per workday (debatable number, depends on culture, but i'm averaging between the "big" commit and lots of small commits), you're going to end up with 100k commits _per year_. And many large startups have a multiplier of that number of developers and they're much, much messier than kernel devs.
Referencing the ideal case as counter-example is a bit silly.