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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: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Monday September 17 2018, @02:23PM (12 children)
Thats unchanged for a quarter century.
Whats new?
My guess is some kind of blackmail. Doesn't have to be true, of course, just has to be true enough sounding, to provide leverage, resulting in the "CoC" victory lap by non-contributing entryists.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by jmorris on Monday September 17 2018, @04:27PM (8 children)
Linux got too big, too much money flowing around it and the world itself changed. Yes, this event tracks back to Hillary Clinton losing an election that had been rigged for her. Now there isn't going to be any more chances, everything in the State, nothing out, nothing opposed. Torvalds was not Deep State and controlled a large resource. It really was that simple. It is not an accident we are seeing this same thing across the industry all at once. Every project is having a CoC rammed down on it from outside, political minders installed in positions of power, removing any who fail to 'get with the program. Every social media company began spiraling into ever more frantic levels of censorship around the same time, deplatforming just became a word.
I'm sure efforts were made to destabilize Linus to permit removing him, it isn't hard when you control the levers of power the Deep State does. His problem is he was utterly ill equipped to recognize the buzzsaw coming for his head. Let us hope he figures it out and realizes regaining project lead on Linux is impossible at this point. Brendan Eich shows the way forward if he still wants to do this sort of thing, build his own and don't allow the problem people to ever get in by actually controlling it.
There is now an opportunity, Linux will almost certainly turn to shit within two or three years under its new "diverse" leadership, it always happens. Every buzzword will be applied to the kernel now, every new fad, half of it will get rewritten in C++, the remainder in Rust or something even worse. The hooting demons now run the show, anyone else remaining from the old days of competence will be quickly driven off. Clean slate, bold new innovative ideas, a glorious future. Then oblivion.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @06:18PM (5 children)
Jesus you guys are so far out it's not even funny. Not everything you read about is a conspiracy. Please try watching something else besides fox and breitbart for some time. Or two minutes non-hate.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by VLM on Monday September 17 2018, @09:05PM (1 child)
Seriously, simultaneous deplatforming attacks are just random thermodynamic coincidences?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @09:20PM
This has shit all to do with thermodynamics, but GOLD STAR for you using big words. I love watching the little shits grow up.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 17 2018, @10:19PM
Maybe not blackmail. Maybe something to do with the observatory closing. Like maybe the connection between the two is so thin it is difficult to see. But if you close your eyes and try real hard you can see the connection. Like totally dude.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @11:29PM (1 child)
How did Ian die?
Is the recent takeover of Debian at all related to his death?
(Score: 2) by rleigh on Tuesday September 18 2018, @07:07AM
Stop with that stupidity. Ian Murdock hadn't been involved with Debian for a long, long time. Way more than a decade, likely nearly two as far as I can recall.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @09:07PM
I see what you did there!
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday September 27 2018, @07:00AM
He was aware.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907 [ibiblio.org]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @01:14AM (1 child)
https://lwn.net/Articles/764911/ [lwn.net]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @04:42AM
If you've got something to say, say it. And if all you've got is innuendo and riddles, please STFU.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday September 20 2018, @02:32PM
ESR made that very point... three years ago:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907 [ibiblio.org]
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“They have made multiple runs at him.” Just let the implications of that sink in for a bit. If my source is to be believed (and I have found him both well-informed and completely trustworthy in the past) this was not a series of misunderstandings, it was a deliberately planned and persistent campaign to frame Linus and feed him to an outrage mob.
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And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.