On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 16:15 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > One thing you should keep in mind in your discussion is what can happen > if people get too polite with each other. > > I have seen this happen at two large companies I worked for. Early on, flames > are acceptable and expected as response to someone publishing bad code which > breaks everything for everyone. Then, at some point, it is not acceptable > anymore to flame, and one is expected to be polite and friendly at all times. > "Your code breaks the build for every platform. Would you please kindly > consider fixing it ?" > Result is that code quality suffers, to the point where images don't even > build anymore. > > I hope the Linux kernel never gets into that stage. To avoid that, > I am willing to be cursed at by Linus if I am the responsible party. Didn't Jim Zemlin show some research where there were two groups: One that did a bunch of brain storming where no idea was a bad idea The other required you to defend your idea while the others bashed it. The results always showed that the second group not only did a better job, but also faster and more efficient. I'm afraid if we worry too much about politeness, we will fall into that first group. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html