From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755938Ab3GWI0m (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jul 2013 04:26:42 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f44.google.com ([209.85.219.44]:40873 "EHLO mail-oa0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755426Ab3GWI0i (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jul 2013 04:26:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130715155202.GC29526@xanatos> References: <20130715155202.GC29526@xanatos> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:26:37 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review From: Rogelio Serrano To: Sarah Sharp Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Guenter Roeck , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Steven Rostedt , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable , Darren Hart Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sarah, kinda reminds me of... baboons... its natural among mammals i guess... Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UMyTnlaMY&feature=share On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:17:08 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> > > >> > > I tend to hold things off after -rc4 because you scare me more than Greg >> > > does ;-) >> > >> > Have you guys *seen* Greg? The guy is a freakish giant. He *should* >> > scare you. He might squish you without ever even noticing. >> >> Greg might be a giant and he might squish people without ever even >> noticing, but that's just a grave, deadly physical threat no real kernel >> hacker ever feels threatened by. (Not much can hurt us deep in our dark >> basements after all, except maybe earthquakes, gamma ray eruptions and Mom >> trying to clean up around the computers.) >> >> So Greg, if you want it all to change, create some _real_ threat: be frank >> with contributors and sometimes swear a bit. That will cut your mailqueue >> in half, promise! > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 08:22:27 -0700, Linus wrote: >> Greg, the reason you get a lot of stable patches seems to be that you >> make it easy to act as a door-mat. Clearly at least some people say "I >> know this patch isn't important enough to send to Linus, but I know Greg >> will silently accept it after the fact, so I'll just wait and mark it >> for stable". >> >> You may need to learn to shout at people. > > Seriously, guys? Is this what we need in order to get improve -stable? > Linus Torvalds is advocating for physical intimidation and violence. > Ingo Molnar and Linus are advocating for verbal abuse. > > Not *fucking* cool. Violence, whether it be physical intimidation, > verbal threats or verbal abuse is not acceptable. Keep it professional > on the mailing lists. > > Let's discuss this at Kernel Summit where we can at least yell at each > other in person. Yeah, just try yelling at me about this. I'll roar > right back, louder, for all the people who lose their voice when they > get yelled at by top maintainers. I won't be the nice girl anymore. > > Sarah Sharp > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/