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Reputational awards are the standard "payment" for producing free software. Removing them reduces the number of people willing to work on the software, which re
by Viliam1234 8y ago
Reputational awards are the standard "payment" for producing free software. Removing them reduces the number of people willing to work on the software, which reduces the probability of the software being completed successfully.
This is a bit like asking "is your goal to bake bread, or to use flour?", and when the baker says "to bake bread, obviously", replying "so you don't mind if we just throw away all your flour, right?". I would side with the baker who says that people who go around throwing away the flour are probably doing it to sabotage baking bread, not because they want to improve the quality of bread.
- throwanem 8y agoWho is suggesting that reputational rewards for merged kernel pulls be removed? Or that that's even possible? A merged pull remains a merged pull. Accepted contributions remain accepted contributions. The concept of the "post-meritocracy manifesto" isn't that the value of contribution should change. It's not saying that solid kernel commits don't count any more. It's saying that writing solid documentation and dealing effectively with people count too.
- Viliam1234 8y ago> It's saying that writing solid documentation and dealing effectively with people count too. The Linux Documentation Project existed long before these people came. And if "dealing effectively with people" is what we currently observe, I'd say no thanks.