Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753179Ab3GOSRK (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:17:10 -0400 Received: from mail-vb0-f42.google.com ([209.85.212.42]:33422 "EHLO mail-vb0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752101Ab3GOSRH (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:17:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130715180403.GD15531@xanatos> References: <20130715155202.GC29526@xanatos> <20130715174659.GC15531@xanatos> <20130715180403.GD15531@xanatos> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:17:06 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: bvv2-WQrz2ntQtN5dltr__WEHqw Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review From: Linus Torvalds To: Sarah Sharp Cc: Ingo Molnar , Guenter Roeck , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Steven Rostedt , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable , Darren Hart Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2330 Lines: 50 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > However, I am serious about this. Linus, you're one of the worst > offenders when it comes to verbally abusing people and publicly tearing > their emotions apart. Yes. And I do it partly (mostly) because it's who I am, and partly because I honestly despise being subtle or "nice". The fact is, people need to know what my position on things are. And I can't just say "please don't do that", because people won't listen. I say "On the internet, nobody can hear you being subtle", and I mean it. And I definitely am not willing to string people along, either. I've had that happen too - not telling people clearly enough that I don't like their approach, they go on to re-architect something, and get really upset when I am then not willing to take their work. Sarah, first off, I don't have that many tools at hand. Secondly, I simply don't believe in being polite or politically correct. And you can point at all those cultural factors where some cultures are not happy with confrontation (and feel free to make it about gender too - I think that's almost entirely cultural too). And please bring up "cultural sensitivity" while at it. And I'll give you back that same "cultural sensitivity". Please be sensitive to _my_ culture too. Google "management by perkele". Do you really want to oppress a minority? Because Finns are a minority compared to almost any other country. If you want to talk cultural sensitivity, I'll join you. But my culture includes cursing. And some of the above is written tonge-in-cheek, but all of it is also serious. I really fundamentally believe that being honest and open about your emotions about core/process is good. And because it's damn hard to read people over email, I think you need to be *more* honest and *more* open over email. I'm generally nicer in person. Not always. And yes, I'll happily be part of the discussion at the KS. But I think you also need to be aware that your "high horse" isn't necessarily all that high. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/