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Jiri Kosina wrote when he became the floppy maintainer in 2012: "I have fought the current maintainer to the death in the Thunderdome" https://github.com/torval
by dimoprhus 7y ago
Jiri Kosina wrote when he became the floppy maintainer in 2012: "I have fought the current maintainer to the death in the Thunderdome"
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8206f664bfd7121e79f3b3fbf967953dbed78d7f https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8206f664bfd7121e79f...
Denis Efremov sent the security patches to floppy driver. Jiri orphaned the driver:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc4d0f371bf773540a8f8f4 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc...
And now Denis wants to maintain the floppy driver...
Linus https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/16/370 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/16/370:
"You'll have to fight the current maintainer to the death in the Thunderdome. What's that, you say?"
- bitwize 7y agoAnd this is why the kernel community is toxic. Linus was literally advocating violence -- deadly violence at that!
- amiga-workbench 7y agoIs Poe's law currently in effect?
- bitwize 7y agoYeah, that's a jab at Sage Sharp, who accused Linus on LKML of "advocating violence" when he said something like "Greg [Kroah-Hartman] is a giant and might squish you".