How and why to work with the Linux kernel community
Collaborative Software Development


Project Management / Decision making
usually there's a small group (coreteam) or one leader
he is often the creator of the program, or it's maintainer
he has the final say in what is accepted or not
larger projects have 'subsystem maintainers' with delegated authority
so quite often, the structure is more hierarchical than people believe
rough concensus and running code