“Linus: As most of you probably already know, I
hate giving talks… I expect this to be mostly a Q&A. But
usually Q&As that start off cold don’t work very well. So what
I usually do for my Q&A is do a few slides. If the slides end
up being interesting and I get questions on the slides, the slides
can take up the whole thing. But that seldom happens because the
slides tend to be boring.“But I’ve noticed that I used to give a lot of talks about
what’s new in 2.6 kind of things, right? Or a few technical
thoughts about some specific feature. And I decided I won’t do that
this time at all. Because I notice that what I’m not actually doing
any more is coding… Since I’m still giving a talk about technical
stuff, I decided that I might as well give a talk about managing
stuff… a few slides on some of the issues that come up.“I’ve really only got a few points on what really matters.
Obviously, people–managing people, and having other people manage
people for you–ends up being one of the more important parts. The
other one is that we have started to use a lot of tools for
management. One of them obviously is source control. The other one
is, I’m writing this C parser because I decided I needed it and
wanted it.“So people it actually seems to be biggest
problem…”