Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758047Ab3GRCmH (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:42:07 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:47935 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756676Ab3GRCmF (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:42:05 -0400 Message-ID: <1374115243.19894.500.camel@pasglop> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Sarah Sharp Cc: Steven Rostedt , CAI Qian , David Lang , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Darren Hart , Olivier Galibert , stable , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Willy Tarreau , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:40:43 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20130717185138.GC17906@xanatos> References: <20130716211235.GG4994@xanatos> <20130716212704.GB9371@thunk.org> <20130716224357.GK4994@xanatos> <1374015299.6458.76.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130716231217.GL4994@xanatos> <51E5D7C8.5000306@gmail.com> <1374018809.2249.29.camel@leira.trondhjem.org> <1000066089.1803398.1374046596236.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> <20130717144849.GB16513@xanatos> <1374073771.6458.143.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130717185138.GC17906@xanatos> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1343 Lines: 31 On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 11:51 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > Here's a gem from a senior software developer at Nvidia: > https://picasaweb.google.com/116960357493251979546/Trolls#5901298464591248626 > > And another email from a software developer in Portland, where I live: > https://picasaweb.google.com/116960357493251979546/Trolls#5901288095984358098 > > On my blog, here's some choice comments, mostly asking me to quit kernel > development, along with more than a few misogynist comments: > > "You volunteered to help out on the Linux journey. He never volunteered > to care for your feelings, nor did anyone else. It’s an opt-in community > and you can always opt out at any time. Caveat emptor." > > "You’re no one compared to Linus. Start being Alan Cox or Theodore T’so > first to criticize him for his behaviour." There is a whole army of idiots out there, we know that. We aren't going to fix *that*. Was any of the above actually a *relevant* person as part of our community ? Because non of what we do, say, document, decide, etc... here will change those idiots. Cheers, Ben. -- 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/