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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) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:07PM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:07PM (#752511) Homepage Journal

    -ted.

    I regard the ability not to get depressed over one's bad code being discovered as a very basic qualification for any coding job.

    Surely there is some happy compromise?

    Consider that the employee who reports bad code to the one who wrote it should be required to do so respectfully.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:56PM (#752529)

    The case in point (happened twenty years ago), the code in question was found and fixed during a build and the original author was not notified and became upset when it was discovered that they were not listed as author. It wasn't about depression, but taking it as a personal attack that they weren't good enough. The company had been recently chewed out by a customer for, uh, substandard quality (another org meeting where people started crying).