Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:44:50PM +, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Hi Willy, > > I understand completely. I don't blame you. Filter the thread. Done. So because people speak loudly at night below my window in summer, I have to close the window and install a fan to get some air ? And all the

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
Hi Willy, I understand completely. I don't blame you. Filter the thread. Done. I am not tired of the subject, quite the contrary. Please do not speak for me in that regard. After many years of wandering in the toxic wasteland, finally some actual progress. Regards, Daniel -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:51:21PM +, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On 07/25/2013 02:34 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Guys, could we please stop this endless boring thread ? > > Willy, I believe we are on the same side of the civility debate, but I > somehow got the feeling that you just

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On 07/25/2013 02:34 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Guys, could we please stop this endless boring thread ? Willy, I believe we are on the same side of the civility debate, but I somehow got the feeling that you just characterized my comment re "open and honest" as "endless and boring". I agree

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 16:33 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Guys, could we please stop this endless boring thread ? Just do what I did and kill it with a /dev/null filter. But wait! How did I see this email? Oh shit! It's come back from the dead -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:00:37AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Moving on. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed > without evidence. Guys, could we please stop this endless boring thread ? Thank you. Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On 07/24/2013 12:51 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> Your mistaken fallacy seems to be that you think one can *always* be >> both A (open and honest), and B (polite)... > > You are are right, I do think that you can *always* be both open and

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Daniel Phillips d.phill...@partner.samsung.com wrote: On 07/24/2013 12:51 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: Your mistaken fallacy seems to be that you think one can *always* be both A (open and honest), and B (polite)... You are are right, I do think that you can

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:00:37AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: Moving on. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Guys, could we please stop this endless boring thread ? Thank you. Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 16:33 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: Guys, could we please stop this endless boring thread ? Just do what I did and kill it with a /dev/null filter. But wait! How did I see this email? Oh shit! It's come back from the dead -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On 07/25/2013 02:34 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: Guys, could we please stop this endless boring thread ? Willy, I believe we are on the same side of the civility debate, but I somehow got the feeling that you just characterized my comment re open and honest as endless and boring. I agree that the

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:51:21PM +, Daniel Phillips wrote: On 07/25/2013 02:34 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: Guys, could we please stop this endless boring thread ? Willy, I believe we are on the same side of the civility debate, but I somehow got the feeling that you just characterized

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
Hi Willy, I understand completely. I don't blame you. Filter the thread. Done. I am not tired of the subject, quite the contrary. Please do not speak for me in that regard. After many years of wandering in the toxic wasteland, finally some actual progress. Regards, Daniel -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:44:50PM +, Daniel Phillips wrote: Hi Willy, I understand completely. I don't blame you. Filter the thread. Done. So because people speak loudly at night below my window in summer, I have to close the window and install a fan to get some air ? And all the

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-24 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 09:23 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 21:38 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:26 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > > I think it's not in the original fallacies because they come from Greek > > > rhetoric and the Greeks

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-24 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 21:38 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:26 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > > I think it's not in the original fallacies because they come from Greek > > rhetoric and the Greeks believed dialectic: the taking opposite > > positions and arguing them

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-24 Thread Daniel Phillips
On 07/24/2013 12:51 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Your mistaken fallacy seems to be that you think one can *always* be > both A (open and honest), and B (polite)... You are are right, I do think that you can *always* be both open and honest, and polite. I do not believe that I am mistaken. And I

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-24 Thread Daniel Phillips
On 07/24/2013 12:51 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: Your mistaken fallacy seems to be that you think one can *always* be both A (open and honest), and B (polite)... You are are right, I do think that you can *always* be both open and honest, and polite. I do not believe that I am mistaken. And I

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-24 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 21:38 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:26 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: I think it's not in the original fallacies because they come from Greek rhetoric and the Greeks believed dialectic: the taking opposite positions and arguing them thoroughly.

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-24 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 09:23 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 21:38 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:26 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: I think it's not in the original fallacies because they come from Greek rhetoric and the Greeks believed

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 21:48 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > C'mon folks. This is beyond silly. Let us look at the things that we > can really change, or at least influence change within. Things that > really matter to linux today and tomorrow. Ah, so there is middle ground between creationism

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-23 Thread Paul Gortmaker
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:26 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 19:51 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Phillips >> wrote: >> > On 07/20/2013 12:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> >> I think you need more than "hope" to change one of the

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:26 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > I think it's not in the original fallacies because they come from Greek > rhetoric and the Greeks believed dialectic: the taking opposite > positions and arguing them thoroughly. It's only with the advent of > Western European political

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 19:51 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Phillips > wrote: > > On 07/20/2013 12:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > >> I think you need more than "hope" to change one of the fundamental > >> rules of LKML; be open and honest, even if that

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-23 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On 07/20/2013 12:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> I think you need more than "hope" to change one of the fundamental >> rules of LKML; be open and honest, even if that means expressing your >> opinion in a way that others might consider

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-23 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Phillips d.phill...@partner.samsung.com wrote: On 07/20/2013 12:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: I think you need more than hope to change one of the fundamental rules of LKML; be open and honest, even if that means expressing your opinion in a way that

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 19:51 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Phillips d.phill...@partner.samsung.com wrote: On 07/20/2013 12:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: I think you need more than hope to change one of the fundamental rules of LKML; be open and

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:26 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: I think it's not in the original fallacies because they come from Greek rhetoric and the Greeks believed dialectic: the taking opposite positions and arguing them thoroughly. It's only with the advent of Western European political

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-23 Thread Paul Gortmaker
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:26 PM, James Bottomley james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 19:51 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Phillips d.phill...@partner.samsung.com wrote: On 07/20/2013 12:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: I

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 21:48 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: C'mon folks. This is beyond silly. Let us look at the things that we can really change, or at least influence change within. Things that really matter to linux today and tomorrow. Ah, so there is middle ground between creationism and

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-22 Thread Li Zefan
On 2013/7/23 9:39, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:26 +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > >> IT companies in China, they try to make sure there's at least one (most the >> time the result is just one) female developer/tester in a team, and a team >> is ~10 people. Even if it's a kernel

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:26 +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > IT companies in China, they try to make sure there's at least one (most the > time the result is just one) female developer/tester in a team, and a team > is ~10 people. Even if it's a kernel team, but it's harder to meet. > > Don't know if

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-22 Thread Li Zefan
On 2013/7/21 21:22, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 07/20/2013 01:04 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> n Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:42 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >>> >On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >* Felipe Contreras wrote: >>> > > > >>As Linus already pointed out, not

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-22 Thread Li Zefan
On 2013/7/21 21:22, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 07/20/2013 01:04 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: n Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:42 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Ingo Molnarmi...@kernel.org wrote: * Felipe Contrerasfelipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: As Linus already

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:26 +0800, Li Zefan wrote: IT companies in China, they try to make sure there's at least one (most the time the result is just one) female developer/tester in a team, and a team is ~10 people. Even if it's a kernel team, but it's harder to meet. Don't know if the

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-22 Thread Li Zefan
On 2013/7/23 9:39, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:26 +0800, Li Zefan wrote: IT companies in China, they try to make sure there's at least one (most the time the result is just one) female developer/tester in a team, and a team is ~10 people. Even if it's a kernel team, but

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-21 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 07/20/2013 01:04 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: n Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:42 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >* Felipe Contreras wrote: > > >>As Linus already pointed out, not everybody has to work with everybody. > > > >That's not the

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-21 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 07/20/2013 01:04 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: n Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:42 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Ingo Molnarmi...@kernel.org wrote: * Felipe Contrerasfelipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: As Linus already pointed out, not everybody has to work with

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-20 Thread Daniel Phillips
On 07/20/2013 12:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > I think you need more than "hope" to change one of the fundamental > rules of LKML; be open and honest, even if that means expressing your > opinion in a way that others might consider offensive and colorful. Logical fallacy type: bifurcation. You

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:42 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Felipe Contreras wrote: > > >> As Linus already pointed out, not everybody has to work with everybody. > > > > That's not the point though, the point is to potentially

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:42 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Ingo Molnar mi...@kernel.org wrote: * Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: As Linus already pointed out, not everybody has to work with everybody. That's not the point though, the

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-20 Thread Daniel Phillips
On 07/20/2013 12:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: I think you need more than hope to change one of the fundamental rules of LKML; be open and honest, even if that means expressing your opinion in a way that others might consider offensive and colorful. Logical fallacy type: bifurcation. You can

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-19 Thread NeilBrown
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:43:53 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:33 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > > If you're basing your entire theory on male/female interaction on > > teenagers, then I'm afraid your wife might be on to something ... > > No, it's also based on

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:33 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > If you're basing your entire theory on male/female interaction on > teenagers, then I'm afraid your wife might be on to something ... No, it's also based on interaction with my Wife and her sister too ;-) -- Steve -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-19 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 14:56 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:42 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > But you are avoiding the question as well; do you think there's > > something fundamentally different about the female brain that makes > > them more susceptible to personal

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/18/2013 11:03 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> >> Ie. It's a *very good* barrier against maintainers sliding into >> sloppyness. Really, it works. At least with me. >> >> It's easy to take things a bit too much for granted, especially when you >> maintain your own little corner of the world. >

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 11:51 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > > I have to ask. How much verbal abuse have you received in LKML? And I > > > don't mean in this thread. > > > > I assume you also want me to exclude the verbal abuse and personal > > threats I've received

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-19 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:01:05PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 10:14 +0400, James Bottomley wrote: > > > OK, I am stupid enough to take a stab at this... > > > > > > 1.Does the Linux kernel community's health depend on the occasional > > > rant? [My

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-19 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:01:05PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 10:14 +0400, James Bottomley wrote: OK, I am stupid enough to take a stab at this... 1.Does the Linux kernel community's health depend on the occasional rant? [My guess is that we

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 11:51 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: I have to ask. How much verbal abuse have you received in LKML? And I don't mean in this thread. I assume you also want me to exclude the verbal abuse and personal threats I've

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/18/2013 11:03 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: Ie. It's a *very good* barrier against maintainers sliding into sloppyness. Really, it works. At least with me. It's easy to take things a bit too much for granted, especially when you maintain your own little corner of the world. Agreed!

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-19 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 14:56 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:42 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: But you are avoiding the question as well; do you think there's something fundamentally different about the female brain that makes them more susceptible to personal

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:33 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: If you're basing your entire theory on male/female interaction on teenagers, then I'm afraid your wife might be on to something ... No, it's also based on interaction with my Wife and her sister too ;-) -- Steve -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-19 Thread NeilBrown
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:43:53 -0400 Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:33 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: If you're basing your entire theory on male/female interaction on teenagers, then I'm afraid your wife might be on to something ... No, it's also based

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-18 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 16/07/2013 20:27, James Bottomley ha scritto: > I'm perfectly happy to run linux-scsi along reasonable standards of > civility and try to keep the debates technical, but that's far easier to > do on a low traffic list; obviously, I realise that style of argument > doesn't suit everyone, so it's

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-18 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 16/07/2013 20:27, James Bottomley ha scritto: I'm perfectly happy to run linux-scsi along reasonable standards of civility and try to keep the debates technical, but that's far easier to do on a low traffic list; obviously, I realise that style of argument doesn't suit everyone, so it's not

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:24:18PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > Abuse is never justified, I hope that's clear for everybody. > > > > Depends on details of your definition of abuse. [snip] > http://outofthefog.net/CommonBehaviors/VerbalAbuse.html " "Always" and "Never" Statements - "Always"

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread CAI Qian
ot;Darren Hart" , "Ingo Molnar" , > "Olivier Galibert" , > "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "stable" > , "Linus Torvalds" > , "Willy Tarreau" > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 10:48:49 PM > Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-disc

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 11:51 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > Here's a gem from a senior software developer at Nvidia: > https://picasaweb.google.com/116960357493251979546/Trolls#5901298464591248626 > > And another email from a software developer in Portland, where I live: >

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 10:14 +0400, James Bottomley wrote: > > OK, I am stupid enough to take a stab at this... > > > > 1.Does the Linux kernel community's health depend on the occasional > > rant? [My guess is that we simply have no way of knowing. > > That said, I would be

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 04:19:34PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 04:08:31PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:49:23PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On 07/17/13 15:02, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:40:43AM -0700, Sarah

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:42:44PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:56:16PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >> >> > Abuse is never justified, I hope that's clear for everybody. >> >> Depends on details of your definition of

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 04:08:31PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:49:23PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On 07/17/13 15:02, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:40:43AM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > > > > [ ... ] > > >> > > >> The result: 75% of

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:49:23PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 07/17/13 15:02, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:40:43AM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > >> > >> The result: 75% of their developers are women. If you give a flying > >> fuck about diversity, and

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Sarah Sharp wrote: > https://picasaweb.google.com/116960357493251979546/Trolls#5901298464591248626 > https://picasaweb.google.com/116960357493251979546/Trolls#5901288095984358098 > > On my blog, here's some choice comments, mostly asking me to quit kernel > development, along with more than a few

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:03:35AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 13:30 +0100, Ricardo Ferreira wrote: > > Slashdot is just a cesspool of trolls, not a good comparison. > > Point taken. > > I posted this privately, and I think I'll repost it here. I need to > modify it a

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 11:51 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > No, it's actually some of the comments I've received that bother me. > For example, I would never want to deal with the misogynist troll, > Lubin, EVER again. It surprises me to see you calling someone names like that, Sarah. It seems to be

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:42:44PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:56:16PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > > Abuse is never justified, I hope that's clear for everybody. > > Depends on details of your definition of abuse. > > > So we are down to the definition of verbal

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-17 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:14:49AM +0400, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 14:18 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:27:09PM +0400, James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 15:38 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:08 PM,

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > I've said it several times in this thread. I think the tone of LKML has > been getting more tame, and it's not your father's mailing list > anymore. ;-) Indeed. Several (definitely more than 5) years ago, there was a presentation (IIRC

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread George Spelvin
> I think it's pretty clear that one doesn't need to be verbally abusive > in order to stop bad code from getting into the kernel. Actually, it *not* clear. Without drawing fine distinctions about the definition of "abusive", I think Linus's rants have a real purpose at times. One is so that

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:51:38AM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > I assume you also want me to exclude the verbal abuse and personal > threats I've received via email and my blog because of this thread. > But, just for reference, I'll post them here as well. [ comments removed not to give them too

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 11:51 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > I have to ask. How much verbal abuse have you received in LKML? And I > > don't mean in this thread. > > I assume you also want me to exclude the verbal abuse and personal > threats I've received via email and my blog because of this

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Sarah Sharp wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:09:31AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 07:48 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: Does that sound like there are not going to have enough direct/thick skin new kernel developers around to maintain the future Linux

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 01:28:59PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 18:00 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > The last thing I want to do is to lower the quality of the kernel just > > > to get a wider range of developers. > >

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:09:31AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 07:48 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > > Does that sound like there are not going to have enough direct/thick skin > > > new kernel developers around to maintain the future Linux community? Maybe > > > just

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Luck, Tony wrote: >> Those are just stories; things that happened. What you need to provide >> is *evidence* that if the community changes, things will be better, >> and unless you have a study of series of collaborative groups like the >> Linux kernel, that

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:56:16PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Abuse is never justified, I hope that's clear for everybody. Depends on details of your definition of abuse. > So we are down to the definition of verbal abuse. > The Oxford dictionary gives me: > > "speak to (someone) in an

RE: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Luck, Tony
> Those are just stories; things that happened. What you need to provide > is *evidence* that if the community changes, things will be better, > and unless you have a study of series of collaborative groups like the > Linux kernel, that demonstrates that suppressing swearing has a > positive

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Stefano Stabellini >> wrote: >> > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> >> The last thing I want to do is to lower the quality of the kernel

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 10:41 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > The big disadvantage is that it leaves out several hundred (or thousdand) > people. I see that as an advantage ;-) We could video tape it for the entertainment value. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Stefano Stabellini > wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: > >> The last thing I want to do is to lower the quality of the kernel just > >> to get a wider range of developers. > > > > Can we stop

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:00:46PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > The last thing I want to do is to lower the quality of the kernel just > > to get a wider range of developers. > > Can we stop bringing the quality of the code into the discussion?

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:09:31AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > What we need are mentors, and educate people that Linux really isn't > that harsh, and that the new developers actually do have talent, and > shouldn't be afraid to post their code. Hey, this is exactly the goal that we seek at the

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 07/16/13 22:32, Sarah Sharp wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:22:38PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 21:48 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>> Guys, I love my job. The kernel developer community is great. But I >>> suspect that some of you don't necessarily think about the

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 18:00 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > The last thing I want to do is to lower the quality of the kernel just > > to get a wider range of developers. > > Can we stop bringing the quality of the code into the discussion? > > I

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> The last thing I want to do is to lower the quality of the kernel just >> to get a wider range of developers. > > Can we stop bringing the quality of the code into the discussion? Can you

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: > The last thing I want to do is to lower the quality of the kernel just > to get a wider range of developers. Can we stop bringing the quality of the code into the discussion? I think it's pretty clear that one doesn't need to be verbally abusive in

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:03:35AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > The point I'm making is that we need to find out what is preventing good > developers from joining the Linux community. Is it really the harshness > of the project, or is it because we expect you to have the best code, > and you

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 07:48 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > Does that sound like there are not going to have enough direct/thick skin > > new kernel developers around to maintain the future Linux community? Maybe > > just need a better pipeline for people comfortable for this culture? > > No, we

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 08:02 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > Are you volunteering to be a mentor for the FOSS Outreach Program for > Women? ;) I will happily take more mentors for the next round in > November! If you have someone interested in Real Time OS development. Sure! -- Steve -- To

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:36:36AM -0400, CAI Qian wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 19:31 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > > On 07/16/2013 07:12 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:54:59PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:43 -0700, Sarah Sharp

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Gortmaker
On 13-07-16 07:38 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 16:12 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > [...] > >> We need to define what behavior we want >> from both maintainers and patch submitters. E.g. "No regressions" and >> "don't break userspace" > > Yes, those do need to be

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:03:35AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 13:30 +0100, Ricardo Ferreira wrote: > > Slashdot is just a cesspool of trolls, not a good comparison. > > Point taken. > > I posted this privately, and I think I'll repost it here. I need to > modify it a

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 13:30 +0100, Ricardo Ferreira wrote: > Slashdot is just a cesspool of trolls, not a good comparison. Point taken. I posted this privately, and I think I'll repost it here. I need to modify it a bit as it wasn't meant to be public. When I started sending patches to LKML it

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Ricardo Ferreira
Slashdot is just a cesspool of trolls, not a good comparison. On 17 July 2013 13:21, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 07:51 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > I don't believe this is that much practiced on LKML. I know at least > > one developer who does this, but he's probably

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 07:51 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I don't believe this is that much practiced on LKML. I know at least > one developer who does this, but he's probably the exception. I more > often see counter proposals just as if two authors were fighting to > get their patch merged.

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Jeff Liu
On 07/17/2013 06:58 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 17:15 +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: >> On 07/17/2013 08:51 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 08:32 +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: >>> Another thing might deviated from the main theme, but I'd like to raise it

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 17:15 +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: > On 07/17/2013 08:51 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 08:32 +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: > > > >> Another thing might deviated from the main theme, but I'd like to raise it > >> here because I would like to see what's the proper

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-17 Thread Jeff Liu
On 07/17/2013 08:51 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 08:32 +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: > >> Another thing might deviated from the main theme, but I'd like to raise it >> here because I would like to see what's the proper way for that. >> >> For instance, people A posted a patch set

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