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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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Eric S. Raymond Speaks in Regards to the Linux Code of Conduct [Updated]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @11:39PM (7 children)
Systemd had nothing to do with a code of conduct, the crazy levels in this thread are too damn high!
I give up, you conservatives are just too fucking dumb and crazy.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:53AM (4 children)
I've never understood what advantage systemd was supposed to have, but in Debian's case I think it was probably to be able to use the same software as Red Hat. But it's also true that it was forced through really quickly, and I've never seen it reasonably justified. So I suspect that there's SOME sneaky thing about it. Perhaps it was really pushed sub-rosa by the NSA. Perhaps pothering developed a mind control ray. -- something
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:07AM (3 children)
Same here, but systemd was not pushed through using some CoC "backdoor". It was pushed through the front door as nearly everyone sat there screaming. So I still don't buy the hysteria around the CoC like it is going to subvert the actual software.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:57AM
CoC is the fever after you have suffered a violent anal rape. If you project is adopting CoC, it is already too late.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:32AM (1 child)
1. Infiltrate $target_group
2. Get $target_group to accept innocuous looking CoC
3. Threaten $key_members of $target_group with exposure of their little peccadillos which run afoul of the CoC
4. Gain Puppetmaster control of $target_group through $key_members
5. Profit.
The game is to establish potential control mechanisms, and we're not talking about dealing with the Boy Scouts here, or are you all still thinking that the people behind these CoCs are the muppetoids that visibly and noisily espouse them?
Do you really think the sort of muppetoid that bleats about CoCs being necessary in coding projects actually cares about either coding or the project?, they're just the risibly obvious little wind-up infective agents, keys wound tight then let loose, infecting and weakening the system...any system, they don't care.
Why yes, my hat is most assuredly tin-foiley and shiny..double lined for reasons I'd love to tell you all about, but which might bother the DSMA a bit..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:13PM
I read the thing. You are a crazy nerd raging fool. Most/all of the board AND Linus agreed the CoC was a good move. They even amended some of the vague phrasing.
I reviewed some of the controversies and what i saw were asdholes wanting to not be called out for being assholes. Cry me a river, this is like all the bigots crying hard about being called racist and imagining that "the left" is coming to get them. Go be crazy somewhere else, or at least gather some evidence if you wanna cry foul.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @08:21AM
Oh no, you don't give up. What you did is actually smarten up.
Bit is not a conservative, bot is a troll. What the internet-old wisdom says you don't do with trolls?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday October 25 2018, @09:15PM
I am not saying systemd caused the CoC, or that the CoC caused systemd. I am saying that debian adopted the coc and went to shit in 12 months, symptom, or better, proof, the too early adoption of systemd as the exclusive init system in obvious contrast with the motto of the project itself and without a solid majority to back it up.
In my personal model of the world, it's apparent that both coc and systemd are the spawn of satan but I am not pushing this vision on others when simple logic suffices.
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