Whose Problem is it?

• The Porting Matrix

  • 10 hardware architectures
  • 10 Unixish OS variants
  • 10K interesting packages
  • 1M ports to maintain

• Not I, said the developer...

  • I only need to support the ___ architecture.
  • I only need to support the ___ OS variant.
  • I only need to support the ___ package.
  • Sorry, it's not my problem...

• Porting and documentation are long-term,
  community-wide problems.

  • "No man is an island, entire of itself". - John Donne
  • "Open Source is the high-order bit". - Kirk McKusick
  • "I'm in this for the long haul." - Jordan Hubbard
  • "These problems aren't going away." - Rich Morin