Sarah Sharp: Linus Torvalds is advocating for physical intimidation and violence
LKML: Rogelio Serrano: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review
Messages in this threadFirst message in threadSarah SharpLinus TorvaldsSarah SharpLinus TorvaldsSarah SharpLinus TorvaldsSteven RostedtRob LandleyIngo MolnarDarren HartRogelio SerranoDateTue, 23 Jul 2013 16:26:37 +0800SubjectRe: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable reviewFromHi Sarah,kinda reminds me of... baboons... its natural among mammals i guess...Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (bydr. Robert Sapolsky)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UMyTnlaMY&feature=shareOn Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Sarah Sharp<sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> wrote:> On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:17:08 +0200, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:>> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:>>>> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:>> > >>> > > I tend to hold things off after -rc4 because you scare me more than Greg>> > > does ;-)>> >>> > Have you guys *seen* Greg? The guy is a freakish giant. He *should*>> > scare you. He might squish you without ever even noticing.>>>> Greg might be a giant and he might squish people without ever even>> noticing, but that's just a grave, deadly physical threat no real kernel>> hacker ever feels threatened by. (Not much can hurt us deep in our dark>> basements after all, except maybe earthquakes, gamma ray eruptions and Mom>> trying to clean up around the computers.)>>>> So Greg, if you want it all to change, create some _real_ threat: be frank>> with contributors and sometimes swear a bit. That will cut your mailqueue>> in half, promise!>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 08:22:27 -0700, Linus wrote:>> Greg, the reason you get a lot of stable patches seems to be that you>> make it easy to act as a door-mat. Clearly at least some people say "I>> know this patch isn't important enough to send to Linus, but I know Greg>> will silently accept it after the fact, so I'll just wait and mark it>> for stable".>>>> You may need to learn to shout at people.>> Seriously, guys?  Is this what we need in order to get improve -stable?> Linus Torvalds is advocating for physical intimidation and violence.> Ingo Molnar and Linus are advocating for verbal abuse.>> Not *fucking* cool.  Violence, whether it be physical intimidation,> verbal threats or verbal abuse is not acceptable.  Keep it professional> on the mailing lists.>> Let's discuss this at Kernel Summit where we can at least yell at each> other in person.  Yeah, just try yelling at me about this.  I'll roar> right back, louder, for all the people who lose their voice when they> get yelled at by top maintainers.  I won't be the nice girl anymore.>> Sarah Sharp> --> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html> Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/