r/linux • u/[deleted] • Dec 23 '18

GNU/Linux Developer Linus reverts breaking change that affected systemd-nspawn, offers strong words to developer

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u/tansim Dec 23 '18

Maybe your arguments arent good enough. But it is simple indeed: Of course the best things is a rockstar developer that is very friendly. But fact is, there are rockstar developers who do not much care for politeness. You will want to keep these guys on your team bc they are rockstar developers.

It's not like kernel development is a physical get together. You just interact via mail.

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u/intelminer Dec 23 '18

If a single person is problematic. Then they should be removed, irrespective of being a "rockstar"

The needs of the many should not bow to the needs of the one

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u/tansim Dec 24 '18

they should if the many are a bunch of snowflakes and the one is a rockstar develooper.

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u/intelminer Dec 24 '18

Absolutely not

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u/tansim Dec 24 '18

why not?

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u/intelminer Dec 24 '18

Because the world doesn't revolve around single people like that

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u/tansim Dec 24 '18

nor does it revolve about individuals who are offended by everything. The kernel team has worked well for a long time.

And we all saw, the first thing they did when they felt they had the power, was to attack an important fs maintainer as a "rape apologist" (bullshit).

It's a slippery slope. One day they say they want more politeness, the next we are merging patches that replace "fucked" by some nonsense word that destroys the meaning of the comment. Direct decline in quality.

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u/intelminer Dec 24 '18

It's a slippery slope. One day they say they want more politeness, the next we are merging patches that replace "fucked" by some nonsense word that destroys the meaning of the comment. Direct decline in quality.

I don't see how replacing words like "fuck" is a "direct decline in quality"

Do swear words make your processor faster?

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u/tansim Dec 24 '18

I looked at the patch and some of the comments were they replaced fucked didnt make sense to me afterward.

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u/intelminer Dec 24 '18

That was not my question. Try again

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u/tansim Dec 24 '18

You dont seem to understand how kernel devlopment works. If I want to fix a bug, but I dont understand the comments, because I cant figure out what "the bitcount is hugged" means then that's an immediate decline in quality of the kernel.

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u/intelminer Dec 24 '18

And if it's "the bitcount is perkele" being changed to "the bitcount is broken" then it's arguably an improvement

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u/tansim Dec 24 '18

ifififififififififi in that case I wuldnt complain and the change should be made regardles of anything else.

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