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Comment by andrewstuart | Hacker News Reader

"This is an extraordinary way to destroy everything."

What does that mean?

  I burned out years ago trying to juggle the roles senior developer,
  reviewer, tester, triager (crappily), release manager, and (at times)
  manager liaison.  There's enough work here in this one subsystem for a
  team of 20 FT, but instead we're squeezed to half that.  I thought if I
  could hold on just a bit longer I could help to maintain the focus on
  long term development to improve the experience for users.  I was wrong.

I don't know what it means but it is his usual mail signature so not related to his statements here.

I couldn't tell either; my best guesses were:

-by struggling to do too much for too long DW believed he was setting xfs up for failure

-by stepping out of most of what he has been doing he believes xfs will fail due to lack of interest in other people picking up the slack

I really couldn't say which is more probable though. Perhaps both?

I understand it says that working on a filesystem, you get the power to really fuck up people's lives (by introducing a bug). Other way of saying "this is really fun, you get a lot of impact and therefore a lot of responsibility".

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