[kronusaturn]

> Someone should tell the Linux Kernel (and other Open Source dev, where a lot of terrific "as magic as it can get" sw dev happens) guys.

Apparently someone did. The express purpose of the Kernel Developers Summit is to work out problems that couldn't be resolved online.

[plinkplonk]

A summit once a year doesn't change the fact that the default mode of working is still remote and distributed.

An equivalent would be someone working 9 to 5 in an office and doing two days of "work from home" in a year.