On 07/17/2013 06:58 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 17:15 +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: >> On 07/17/2013 08:51 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 08:32 +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: >>> >>>> Another thing might deviated from the main theme, but I'd like to raise it >>>> here because I would like to see what's the proper way for that. >>>> >>>> For instance, people A posted a patch set to the mailing list at first, >>>> people B think that there are some issues in A's implementation, and he >>>> happened to play around the same stuff recently, so he submitted another >>>> patch series. Finally, people B made it. >>>> (In that period, people A kept silent, maybe because he/she was unhappy) >>>> >>>> This is a actual occurrence I once observed from a subsystem list(my >>>> apologies, I just want to talk this case rather than against somebody), >>>> it seems people A is a new comer(because I can not searched any past >>>> commits of him/her from the git log), people B is definitely a senior guy. >>>> >>>> So that's my question, is that a proper collaboration form in kernel >>>> community? Does it better if people B could give some suggestions to >>>> help A to improve the code, especially if those help would help A stepping >>>> into the kernel development -- maybe it's depend largely on one's opinion. :( >>> >>> This is a completely different issue from the one in this thread, but it >>> is also a legitimate issue and honestly, a bigger one than perceived >>> insults. >>> >>> Is it proper collaboration? Absolutely not. Something that I try to be >>> sensitive to as it's something I can do as well. There's been things on >>> my todo list, where someone would send me patches that do it. I would be >>> thinking "darn it, I wanted to do it" and even worse, the patches that >>> were sent wouldn't be of the way I wanted them. But I've tried to be >>> good, and instead of just going about and implementing it myself, I >>> would try to help the person massage the patches into what I wanted. >> >> It's kind of you. Generally, most forks are nice enough in helping others. >> Actually, I only noticed once of something like that the year before. >> Well, I just received an offline email from my college a fews hours ago as >> she checked this topic and unfortunately, she has experienced the same thing >> a few days ago. > > If you want a quiet investigation, I or one of the other maintainers can > do it offline (you'll need to send the details via private email). Just > for your information, though, I've done this sort of thing before too. > This is probably the most egregious example: I'll send out those info for your investigation in a little while. Thanks, -Jeff -- 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