a different point of view to "etiquette"

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/16/2013 06:10 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/58049/focus%3D1525074
>>
>> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> linux-foundation.org>
> 
> Linus is in a very special category, and I don't think his justifications 
> can be applied to virtually any one else.  Especially, not *here*.

People put up with his behaviour because of his other talents, but in
the long run that's not sustainable. One of the problems with this is
that younger and more naive people think the way Linus communicates on
the lists is a model to imitate. It's not.

See here:

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo <at> kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel.stable, gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2013-07-19 11:59:19 GMT (1 week, 3 days, 21 hours and 41 minutes ago)

* Willy Tarreau <w <at> 1wt.eu> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:40:43AM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote:
>
> > Go look at Dreamwidth, the open source Livejournal fork.  It has a
> > good code of conduct, so developers are civil to each other.  They
> > encourage all patch submissions, and take the time to work with people
> > who don't understand their community rules.
> >
> > The result: 75% of their developers are women.  If you give a flying
> > fuck about diversity, and want to attract women to your open source
> > project, your developers need to be civil, and not verbally abuse each
> > other.
>
> But this has nothing to do with a project's success or quality, gender
> is not related. Are you suggesting that with more women the Linux kernel
> would be a more successful project ? If so I think you're a bit biased.
> In my opinion, only its good people make it a good project, whatever
> their gender.

I don't necessarily agree with everything that Sarah has stated, but I
think we can declare it with scientific certainty that utilizing the other
50% of creative brainpower that humanity has available can only improve
the Linux kernel, and drastically so.

( The "how" is the 1 trillion dollars question, and I'm glad Sarah is
  working on that problem. )