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Linus Blocks kdbus Code Merges from Kay Sievers

posted by janrinok on Friday April 04 2014, @07:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the never-one-to-stay-silent dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

From an email from Linus Torvalds to GKH

"Greg just for your information, I will *not* be merging any code from Kay [Sievers] into the kernel until this constant pattern is fixed.

This has been going on for *years*, and doesn't seem to be getting any better. This is relevant to you because I have seen you talk about the kdbus patches, and this is a heads-up that you need to keep them separate from other work. Let distributions merge it as they need to and maybe we can merge it once it has been proven to be stable by whatever distro that was willing to play games with the developers.

But I'm not willing to merge something where the maintainer is known to not care about bugs and regressions and then forces people in other projects to fix their project. Because I am *not* willing to take patches from people who don't clean up after their problems, and don't admit that it's their problem to fix."

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by MechaStreisand on Friday April 04 2014, @08:40PM

    by MechaStreisand (1550) on Friday April 04 2014, @08:40PM (#26374)

    If you have a karma-bonus modifier, there's something seriously wrong with how they're giving those out.

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  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Friday April 04 2014, @11:22PM

    by zocalo (302) on Friday April 04 2014, @11:22PM (#26448)
    Seems to have started off OK with a +5 insightful post, then gone off the rails when the spat over site management kicked off. NCommander posted the default scores for rankings a few days back and there's a fair way to got before he gets the "Bad Karma" rating (-25).
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    • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Saturday April 05 2014, @12:05AM

      by zocalo (302) on Saturday April 05 2014, @12:05AM (#26465)
      Found the original post [soylentnews.org] and I had it backwards; 25 is for "Good", -10 for "Terrible", so not that far to go after all.
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