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Lovely grumpy ol' Linus. I admire him for being willing to try doing something a little bit differently to make the kernel a more welcoming place for developers
by SwellJoe 12y ago
Lovely grumpy ol' Linus. I admire him for being willing to try doing something a little bit differently to make the kernel a more welcoming place for developers who aren't part of the old school he was raised in. I'm only slightly younger than Linus, and I have made more than my fair share of rude comments in various Open Source mailing lists...but, well, I'm no longer convinced it's the only or even best way to get things done in a community.
And, I enjoy that it's called "code of conflict", as it's clear that getting code into the kernel is still going to involve a fight, it's just going to be a civil one wherein everyone is following some basic rules ("no hitting below the belt", so to speak).
- eeZi 12y agohttps://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ddbd2b7ad99a418c60397901a0f3c997d030c65e https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.... Note how Linus did not ACK the commit. Haha.
- jgrowl 12y agoThat's hilarious. Classic Linus.
- digi_owl 12y agoAs best i understand it, when Torvalds breaks out the big guns the issue has usually spent some time simmering in the lower tiers of the developer chain. Also the person being chewed out is likely to be someone senior in the kernel community, and so should already know what is expected in terms of code quality and behavior.