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Linus blocks system d maintainer from further kernel commits
- scrollaway 13y agoIt's sad if this affects kdbus. How else can you deal with attitude problems of this magnitude though?
- devnonymous 13y agoOn the one hand it is sad to see that such an apparently simple[1] bug report turn into a pissing contest of sorts. In this specific case, there is an obvious wrong side (systemd) and an obvious right. However it appears like egos have taken over technical merits in this discussion. On the other hand though, I am glad every time something like this happens because it just reaffirms my belief that Open Source is not just a good 'philosophy' but a good engineering practice. Where technical considerations outweigh personal quirks ...for the most part. I say for the most part because, the role of the maintainer obviously matters a whole lot. In this specific case, Linus has yet again proved that he cares a lot (more than most, read gnome developers) about being consistent. Not having regressions is relatively higher than not breaking user space, which by itself is an important goal. -- [1] simple from a perspective of coder who definitely is not a kernel or systemd developer and is making an educated guess about the complexity of the bug in question
- raphinou 13y agoIf this is representative of the behaviour of systemd developers, some linux distributions have some good times ahead.
- mansr 13y agoIt's not. Usually they are much worse.
- rcxdude 13y agoI'll link to my other comment on this; I'm not impressed by either side at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522776