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Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com)
At Open Source Summit Europe in Edinburgh, Scotland, Linus Torvalds is meeting with Linux's top 40 or so developers at the Maintainers' Summit. This is his first step back in taking over Linux's reins. From a report: A little over a month ago, Torvalds stepped back from running the Linux development community. In a note to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Torvalds said, "I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely. I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately." That time is over. Torvalds is back.
Whether he'll be a kinder and gentler Torvalds remains to be seen. In the Linux 4.19 announcement, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux's temporary leader and maintainer of the stable branch, wrote: "Linus, I'm handing the kernel tree back to you. You can have the joy of dealing with the merge window :)"
Whether he'll be a kinder and gentler Torvalds remains to be seen. In the Linux 4.19 announcement, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux's temporary leader and maintainer of the stable branch, wrote: "Linus, I'm handing the kernel tree back to you. You can have the joy of dealing with the merge window :)"
Wish I had some mod points. I don't feel he did this willingly.
Someone stuck a gun to his head?
Litterally, no. There are other ways to do that, in more subtle ways.
What's the alternative, spouting a bunch of bullshit nonsense about leading a revolution,
Complete strawman. Citation needed.
and watching Linux get forked, and all the Corporate types (who are 95% of the devs now) follow the Kernel with the Best Code Of Conduct?
Now it's getting hot. Wimp ass corporate types completely lacking any kind of backbone are taking over via their usual insidious, coward backroom dealings.
Seriously, when faced with 'take empathy training'
It's usually referred to as "reeducation".
or 'lead the community off to the biggest flame war of all time',
Citation needed. 1% flames (or whatever the actual number is, it's very small), does not a flamewar make.
Which would YOU choose were you in his position?
That depends, we don't know what his choices were.
Personally taking a little empathy training
Reeducation camp, be honest.
seems likea not-bad tradeoff to avoid Linux Developer Civil War.
Hyperbole much? More like the foot-stomping, toy-throwing tantrum of the weak-minded adult children without capability to reflect or exercise self-criticism. I wish Linus had simply let them rage. If they had quit, so much better. Sarah Sharp et al, nothing of value was lost.
its not like he's wearing a swasitka now and spouting a bunch of bullshit.
Too early to tell what the effects of the "reeducation" were. He could have been completely brainwashed (no I don't think so, people don't change that easily, probably he'll just be scared to put a foot wrong again), or it could be completely cosmetic.
Maybe he'll just stop calling people names, and I hope he keeps being Hard about his opinions, just not so personal.
That's the problem. Linus has never really been personal afaict. He might call your code "brain dead", "stupid" and so on. If he gets personal, it's because YOU and your attitude are the primary problem. ("Breaking userspace, pff, not my problem.") How do you suggest dealing with people who are cavalier about their impact on their surroundings to such an extent that it creates problems, without getting personal?
1. This code is a pile of garbage. -- cricitcism of result, harsh, if the code truly is a pile of garbage marginally acceptable. not constructive at all.
Linus isn't your teacher. If your code is bad enough to warrant harsh criticism, first of all it's really bad, generally if there's just disagreement there will be reasoning involved. If you're submitting something bad enough to get yelled at, you screwed up to the extent where any boss would yell at you - or fire you.
2. Whoever wrote this code is a fucking idiot -- criticism of perosn, not acceptable, no feedback on if its even the code that is at fault
What does this even mean? If you're saying Linus calls people idiots with out explaining why, all I can say is [citation needed].
3. This code is truly awful and will never be merged because of A, B, and C, and could be improved by doing X, Y, and | -- harsh but completely fair
You know, that's the usual procedure... Not that you'd know.
No small part of it is because the left has adopted a view that "marginalized people" are effectively entitled to be disruptive, toxic, etc. Because discrimination(tm).
BS.
2. "Marginalized people" cannot be guilty of oppressing "non-marginalized people" no matter how they behave.
This.
is. just. bullshit. claim. by. those. who. don't. want. to. give. their. entitlement. to. bully. any. and. every. minority. they. feel. like. they. don't. like.
In capitalist USA corporations control the government.
Not really. The reason why it didn't happen is because there was no reason for it to happen in the first place. All the people complaining about SJWs are quickly becoming far more obtrusive than the SJWs themselves.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Reminds me of McCarthyism - whatever was really there was dwarfed by the paranoia, the fear that SJWs are everywhere and anyone could be one.
Except McCarthy was right. It's not that the paranoia of SJW's are everywhere. They declare themselves loudly that they're such, that they're "fighting for social justice". It's the fact that they're having a negative impact on society and people have had enough. This isn't paranoia, when the self-proclaimed actors proudly cheer their actions and fucking people over. So, tell me. Which group is telling people that if you don't want illegals in your country you're: "Racist, sexist, homophobic, misandrist, xenophobes."
You can look at any business in the west and see how SJW's and their various allies have reduced the chances of female employment(you can thank metoo) for that one. You can see the destruction of historical monuments pushed by them. You can see their attempts to reduce free speech. You can see how they align themselves in support of violent actions against people who don't agree with their ideology. You can see them protesting VoterID laws, lawful immigration, cheering the banning of books.
Hey, you want to believe that they're nobodies by all means. But it's far harder to believe when they're in charge of the education system and telling teachers not to teach "How to kill a mockingbird" because racism.
Om, nomnomnom...
SJW are threatening you and and your family for what they think you SHOULD say. Do you want to talk about actual emotional trauma, how about walking around terrified under constant threat of having your name and family being equated to the most genocidal monsters in human history? Every moment of every day any minor slip of SOMEONE ELSES inner thoughts and whimsical feelings potentially able to destroy your career and ability to provide for your family.
So, once again, for the Nth time, where is the evidence of this? What evidence do we have that Linus was threatened, or that in fact anyone was threatened in relation to this?
This sounds like the worst kind of propaganda, the fear inducing hidden threat that makes you paranoid, terrified that literally anyone could be an SJW and out to get you, and there is nothing you can do about it. Prove me wrong, by all means.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC