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> scathing rebukes Would you be able to point one out? > to well-intentioned contributors This is a system used and relied upon by billions of people around
by themafia 6mo ago
> scathing rebukes
Would you be able to point one out?
> to well-intentioned contributors
This is a system used and relied upon by billions of people around the world. Your intentions, while good, are not material to the problem. Put another way we have an endless supply of people with "good intentions" but we don't enjoy the same largess of people with "good skills."
- vogelke 6mo agohttps://lwn.net/Articles/343828/ https://lwn.net/Articles/343828/ describes Alan Cox trying to fix the TTY layer, being trashed by Linus, and removing himself from the maintainer page.
- themafia 6mo agoI find it hard to call this a "scathing rebuke:" https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/373 https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/373 It also didn't just happen out of the blue. It's also true that Alan had already been working on the kernel for 15 years, was an employee of RedHat at the time, and his Wife's health was starting to fail. If you follow the thread it goes back and forth across quite a few messages with frustration building on both sides with Alan ultimately deciding to step away from a single (and very hairy) subsystem.
- nijave 6mo agoNot as scathing as some but recent https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiLdmz92CCfu2+-9_UrGSn6Pu6sUVvLs5gjyhGaEov-BA@mail.gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiLdmz92CCfu2+-9_UrGSn6Pu6...