Re: [dpdk-dev] to the intel dpdk engineers and all contributors

[Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 04:46:41PM -0400, daniel chapiesky wrote:
> At time 4:30, he mentioned the "shock to the system" of developers
> expecting a pat on the back and instead receiving critiques of their
> code.....
> 
> I realized that I was one of those who failed to acknowledge the incredible
> work the Intel Engineers and other contributors have produced.

To be clear, the only way you know if your open source is popular is if 
everybody finds the bugs and tries to work around and/or patch and/or file 
them to keep improving the product! Open source is only good when it does have 
bugs and critiques and if it doesn't it's probably unused or buggy. :-D

That being said, DPDK is a TON easier to work with than trying to do 
bare-metal or use a bunch of complicated expensive custom packet processing 
hardware. It's trying to solve a very complex problem, and the code is much 
cleaner than most similar networking code I've ever used.

So nobody working on it should take any of the stuff people might say 
personally... they wouldn't say it if they weren't beating on the product and 
using it to do other complex tasks of their own.

Matthew.