Bad Patches and Issues with other devolopers

From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Bad Patches and Issues with other devolopers
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:24:43 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1408061314240.12818@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11442.1407344320@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:48:14 +0100, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar said:
>
> > oh man you have gained prominence in vger?
> > They have banned you from vger.
>
> Wow. I've been around for a dozen years or so, and can't remember
> *that* ever happening before. That takes some *major* doing, and
> could take literally years to straighten out.  How to approach that?

  *sigh* ... the fact that nick has, *single-handedly*, pissed off and
wasted the time of numerous subsystem maintainers to the point where
he has been banned from LKML and has, in addition, *single-handedly*
turned the kernel newbies mailing list into his personal self-help
playground means that he needs to be shown the door.

  i don't want to sound unsympathetic, but it doesn't *matter* if this
is nick's fault or not -- he is, quite simply, a disruptive influence
and is, at the moment, turning this mailing list into chaos.

  people are asking, can he be salvaged? to which the proper answer
is, who cares? there are a *lot* of kernel newbies out there who would
desperately like to get to the point where *they* can start submitting
patches, and most of *those* people are willing to read and listen and
follow the advice of the veterans to the point where they become
useful contributors. nick is not.

  it's massively ironic that countless people have told nick what he
should be doing, to which his inveitable response is, "ok, but what
should i be doing?"

  if you want to help nick, knock yourself out but take it offline.
nick has already wasted far too much bandwidth that could have been
invested in helping newbies that are willing to *listen*.

rday

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