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Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux

posted by takyon on Monday October 22 2018, @06:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the reptilian-replacement dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

ZDNet:

At Open Source Summit Europe in Scotland, Linus Torvalds is meeting with Linux's top 40 or so developers at the Maintainers' Summit. This is his first step back in taking over Linux's reins.

A little over a month ago, Torvalds stepped back from running the Linux development community. In a note to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Torvalds said, "I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely. I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately."

That time is over. Torvalds is back.

He's a quick study if it only took him a month to learn how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately.

See also: Linus Torvalds is back at Linux while GNU's Stallman unveils a "kindness" policy

Previously: Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @11:33PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @11:33PM (#752232)

    Fuck people and their emotions

    Either put out quality code, or gtfo..

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  • (Score: 2) by mrpg on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:17AM (1 child)

    by mrpg (5708) Subscriber Badge <{mrpg} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:17AM (#752307) Homepage

    Teach a robot to program and all your problems wil be solved.
    And tell your mom to hug you more.
    There's good and bad code, we agree on that.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:26AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:26AM (#752309)

      Where I work, a robot does does the majority of the programming (coding).

      The difficult thing is to develop the set of rules telling the robot what to do. Turning a relay on or off may take dozens of pages of detailed conditions.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:11AM (#752353)

    But it's so easy to manipulate people through their emotions. Isn't that the goal here?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:59PM (#752549)

    So whiny little bitches should stop posting their whiny bitchy rants in public?

    Sounds good to me, you start!