Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757698Ab3GOXP7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:15:59 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com ([209.85.220.48]:45907 "EHLO mail-pa0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754541Ab3GOXP4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:15:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:15:55 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Sarah Sharp Cc: Steven Rostedt , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable , Darren Hart , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review) Message-ID: <20130715231555.GA24650@roeck-us.net> References: <20130715180403.GD15531@xanatos> <20130715184642.GE15531@xanatos> <20130715195316.GF15531@xanatos> <20130715204135.GH15531@xanatos> <1373926109.17876.221.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130715223615.GI15531@xanatos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130715223615.GI15531@xanatos> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1967 Lines: 43 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:36:15PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 06:08:29PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 14:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Sarah Sharp > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Oh, FFS, I just called out on private email for "playing the victim > > > > card". I will repeat: this is not just about me, or other minorities. > > > > I should not have to ask for professional behavior on the mailing lists. > > > > Professional behavior should be the default. > > > > > > Bullshit. > > > > > > > Can we please make this into a Kernel Summit discussion. I highly doubt > > we would solve anything, but it certainly would be a fun segment to > > watch :-) > > I agree, KS is where this conversation should be taking place. > Attendees for this conversation (so far) should be Greg KH, Linus, > Darren Hart, Steve Rostedt, Willy Tarreau, and me. > 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. Guenter -- 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/