alt Hacker News> You're contradicting yourself
How?
> you mention things that are very clearly not end products but thoughts and visions behind them that only lead to end products
Thoughts and visions are much more closely intertwined with end products (in fact, likely supercede them) than some random code review is, so I'm not seeing where the contradiction lies.
> that's the main thing he was being judged on for decades now
Linus hasn't written any code[1] in at least half a decade+. To argue that he's being judged on his code misunderstands why Linux became so popular to begin with.
[1] https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/07/03/2133201/linus-torv...
Either I'm bad at communicating today or you're bad at reading, because you're now using my points, so I'm not sure what to make out of it. Let me repeat myself then:
> Code review is (...) mostly about communication between people, convincing them to your ways of doing things (or getting convinced by others) and communicating needs. It's what keeps projects running and what makes people improve their skills.
The way he does that is exactly what most news stories about Torvalds have been focusing on for many years now. In practice, unless you run a project alone, code review is where thoughts and visions surface up the most. Or, well, should be - not everyone is good at it.
(that said, even though my point is that's he's obviously not being judged on his code, you can easily find code that he wrote as late as this month, so your statement is clearly wrong even if that doesn't really influence the discussion here - code review is still the vast majority of his job, just like he stated there under your link)