Hi Sarah, kinda reminds me of... baboons... its natural among mammals i guess... Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UMyTnlaMY&feature=share On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:17:08 +0200, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- 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