Re: [lug-l] Recent Lennart Poettering Outrage

[Jon DeVree <nuxi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 10:03:26 -0400, Charles Cash wrote:
> 1. Have you contributed to OSS?

Yes, amongst many other places the infamous LKML.

> 2. How did a community manager/project manager interact with you
> (positively/negatively)?

I don't feel that naming names is going to help, so I'll skip over my
negative experiences. I will say that I've never had issues on LKML.

> 3. Would you be willing to link to a repository/issue tracker where the
> event happened?

A long time ago I joked my 15 minutes of fame was the time I got Linus
to call someone an asshole on LKML.

> 4. After reading this article do you see some of Lennart's concerns or do
> you think they are false?

I think part of the problem is right there in his first sentence:

>> Much of the Open Source community tries to advertise the community as
>> one happy place to the outside. Where contributions are valued only by
>> their technical quality, and everybody meets at conferences for beers.

Turns out that electing leaders based on their technical skills rather
than social skills may not be the intellectual utopia people think it is.

My personal favorite quote on the topic dates back to 2005, so this
isn't exactly a new issue either:
https://www.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/2005-12/msg00573.html



I will disagree with him on one point though, i don't think this is
unique to the OSS community. vi v. emacs, windows v. unix, linux v. bsd,
systemd v. upstart v. sysvinit, gnome v. kde, wayland v. mir. You'll
find very passionate, opinionated, and less than civil discourse over
all of them.

I have some others for you:
* Republicans v. Democrats
* Your sportsball team vs. my sportsball team
* Ford v. GM v. Chrysler (we all agree japanese cars suck)
* Your religion v. my religion
* Butter side up v. Butter side down


You ain't lived until you've seen a smear campaign run over a.... school
board election. Thats sadly not a joke.
-- 
Jon
Kernel Archaeologist
X(7): A program for managing terminal windows. See also screen(1).



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