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Linux 4.19-rc4 Released As Linus Temporarily Steps Away From Kernel Maintainership
Linux 4.19-rc4 is out today as the very latest weekly development test kernel for Linux 4.19. It's another fairly routine kernel update at this stage, but more shocking is that Linus Torvalds will be taking a temporary leave from kernel maintainership and Greg Kroah-Hartman will take over the rest of the Linux 4.19 cycle.
Following the recent decision to change the location of the Linux Kernel Summit after Torvalds accidentally booked his flights to the wrong dates/location, plus other discussions happening recently, Linus Torvalds is taking a temporary leave. "I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately," he wrote as part of today's 4.19-rc4 announcement.
So it begins.
Also at ZDNet.
The Linux kernel has adopted a new code of conduct. The link to the code of conduct is here.
It seems Linus Torvalds is also taking a break from being the top kernel maintainer.
The short story is Linus screwing up his scheduling to the Linux maintainers conference which was entirely rescheduled around his mistake. Then he was approached by people who are concerned about his blunt (or some consider rude) comments on the kernel dev mailing list.
I, personally, will miss Linus and I hope he gets things figured out.
Linux kernel firebrand Linus Torvalds has apologized for his explosive rants, and vowed to take a break from the open-source project and seek help.
In a mailing list message on Sunday, Torvalds admitted his "flippant attacks in emails" to fellow Linux programmers and project contributors "have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal ... I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry."
"I need to change some of my behavior," he added, "and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely."
Torvalds, who created the Linux operating system kernel in 1991 and has overseen its development ever since, also promised to take a breather from the project – like the sabbatical he took to create Git – and do some self-reflection to, well, be nicer to everyone.
Elon Musk was in the news recently for blowups, as well. Should technology professionals make stress management and interpersonal skills part of their professional regimen, for their own long-term personal and professional health?
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(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday September 17 2018, @02:11PM (7 children)
> most of the greatest accomplishments the world has ever seen were accomplished by unhealthy people
Disagree. To randomly pick some famous old dudes, Einstein, Feynman? Or Wellington, Churchill (the first one)?
Hook and Newton were nutjobs, its true...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday September 17 2018, @02:33PM (6 children)
Don't know about Hook, but Newton was a lousy alchemist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @06:51PM
At one point Newton thought people were trying to "embroil him with women". I swear I read somewhere he accused someone of hiding temptresses under his bed, but cant find it at the moment.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/531510 [jstor.org]
https://www.flandershealth.us/lead-poisoning/the-madness-of-isaac-newton.html [flandershealth.us]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @08:44PM (4 children)
Point me in the direction of an alchemist who was anything but...
At least alchemy was an attempt at a science, albeit of a proto/pseudo sort, want to talk lousy? try reading any of his religious nonsense sometime.
I should add at this point that I do have in my collection of books some obscure limited run (100 copies) Alchemical tracts, one of the joys of being an obscure book collector in a town where you're known to all the bookshop owners by your first name (interestingly, I can't remember ever telling any of them it) is that they do keep all the weird stuff they come across in a box in the back of the shop for you to have first dibs on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @09:29PM
The interesting thing about alchemy is that eventually you were bound to start getting heavy metal poisoning which includes mental disturbances as a consequence. So as you learned more about it you would go nuttier and nuttier to the point you get more obsessed but less capable of reaching your goal...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 17 2018, @10:31PM
Don't be silly. Some anonymous dude walks in your store, and he never tells you his name, you just KNOW that he's Anonymous Coward. Anonymous has been on television, all over the internets, in the newspapers, on broadcast news - where have you NOT been?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday September 17 2018, @11:09PM (1 child)
Alchemists were, as you say, trying to do science as they understood it in their day. They were ignorant as all get-out, but weren't stupid, and did manage to figure out some important ideas. For instance, if you actually read Roger Bacon, you'll see that he legitimately knew some real science, but it was all mixed in with crazy mystical writing.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @04:33AM
And the goal of alchemists to change one element to another, long doubted and ridiculed, we now know is possible. Although not through means of chemistry but physics, through nuclear reactions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmutation [wikipedia.org]