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posted by chromas on Monday September 17 2018, @12:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the intervention!-intervention! dept.

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.

The Register:

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, Informative) by PiMuNu on Monday September 17 2018, @03:14PM (4 children)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Monday September 17 2018, @03:14PM (#736000)

    Recent in physics:
    * Detection of gravitational waves (i.e. discovery of a completely new class of astrophysics instrument)
    * Higgs discovery (i.e. discovery of the origin of mass)
    * Blue LED invention (many many applications)
    * Neutrino oscillation discovery (breaks standard model)

    > I can't really remember the other Nobel wins (nor do I even car to look up)

    Indeed.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @06:58PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @06:58PM (#736123)

    Detection of gravitational waves (i.e. discovery of a completely new class of astrophysics instrument)

    Meh some German guy predicted that 100 years ago.

    Neutrino oscillation discovery (breaks standard model)

    Meh some Italian guy predicted that 60 years ago.

    Why should we give so much honour to people who confirm the existence of stuff that others have long predicted?

    Not saying they didn't do a good job but in the old days the Nobel Physics prizes were given to people who found stuff others didn't predict...

    • (Score: 2) by turgid on Monday September 17 2018, @08:08PM

      by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 17 2018, @08:08PM (#736155) Journal

      Prediction is one thing. Having a verifiable observation of the phenomenon that was predicted by the theory is quite another. It's called science and it's how we engage with physical reality. You might like to try it.

      in the old days the Nobel Physics prizes were given to people who found stuff others didn't predict...

      In the old days the theories were much simpler and the predictions less grand hence people making discoveries that other people didn't predict. Technology has had to advance a great deal to be able to measure these phenomena that were predicted using some very ingenious reasoning a hundred or so years ago.

      But I know you were just joking.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @09:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @09:37PM (#736212)

      AFAIK Nobel prizes are never attributed to theoretical physicists, only to the ones making practical, applicable, discoveries.

      That's why Einstein got his Nobel for the photo-electric effect. If he had only published the relativity theories, he'd never had it.

    • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Tuesday September 18 2018, @09:26AM

      by PiMuNu (3823) on Tuesday September 18 2018, @09:26AM (#736439)

      In general I actually agree with GP - it is an embarrassment to the experimentalists that they are lagging behind the theorists.

      Specifically though:
      * neutrino oscillations were not *predicted*; merely they were identified as a possibility. Most theorists thought that they would not be discovered (like mu2e conversion nowadays). Experiment showed the nature of reality.
      * the power of gravitational waves is that it gives us an entirely new type of space telescope. The reason it is neat is that we have developed an entirely new class of instrumentation. The observation is also quite neat.