> Fwiw, I went reading through a sample of his corpus on the linux kernel > mailing list (there is an archive of the lkml in, naturally, git > repositories available at lore.kernel.org, dating from circa 1998). I > looked at a sample from circa 1998-2000-ish and then early this year. I > would encourage those judging him to read a sample for themselves. In the > sample I looked at of several dozens of his messages, I saw two that were > moderately edgy, mostly complaining about patches where people were, in > his > view, imposing a burden on others (in code complexity or prominence) to > satisfy their own local needs, and those two were prominent established > people. The overall impression I got was that his messages tend to include > detailed reasons why he didn't like something, and/or an educational > description of how it ought to be instead. > > Again, I encourage people who would judge to read for themselves.
Usually he would go off on people when they ignored his advice. I have seen some of the other maintainers who have been more abusive on occasion. Much of the problem has been exaggerated by others. I spend too much time on BBSes back in the 80s, so I dealt with the flame war community. My brain filters a lot of that crap out. perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
