On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:48:14 +0100, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar said: >>> >>> > oh man you have gained prominence in vger? >>> > They have banned you from vger. >>> >>> Wow. I've been around for a dozen years or so, and can't remember >>> *that* ever happening before. That takes some *major* doing, and >>> could take literally years to straighten out. How to approach that? >> >> *sigh* ... the fact that nick has, *single-handedly*, pissed off and >> wasted the time of numerous subsystem maintainers to the point where >> he has been banned from LKML and has, in addition, *single-handedly* >> turned the kernel newbies mailing list into his personal self-help >> playground means that he needs to be shown the door. >> >> i don't want to sound unsympathetic, but it doesn't *matter* if this >> is nick's fault or not -- he is, quite simply, a disruptive influence >> and is, at the moment, turning this mailing list into chaos. >> >> people are asking, can he be salvaged? to which the proper answer >> is, who cares? there are a *lot* of kernel newbies out there who would >> desperately like to get to the point where *they* can start submitting >> patches, and most of *those* people are willing to read and listen and >> follow the advice of the veterans to the point where they become >> useful contributors. nick is not. >> >> it's massively ironic that countless people have told nick what he >> should be doing, to which his inveitable response is, "ok, but what >> should i be doing?" >> >> if you want to help nick, knock yourself out but take it offline. >> nick has already wasted far too much bandwidth that could have been >> invested in helping newbies that are willing to *listen*. >> >> rday >> >> -- >> >> ======================================================================== >> Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA >> http://crashcourse.ca >> >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday >> LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >> ======================================================================== >> > > Robert, > I am trying to listen now and this was my fault. > Regards Nick Also Robert I starting this the wrong way be treating this as a playground rather then for real work and that was another mistake I made. I do feel that if you guys give me a second case I will listen much better and stop wasting time. Regards Nick _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
