Behavioral standards in the free software community [LWN.net]

Behavioral standards in the free software community

Posted Jun 8, 2006 5:11 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)
In reply to: Behavioral standards in the free software community by dang
Parent article: Behavioral standards in the free software community

One huge key really involves the ability of people to work together

I was just thinking that another prominent example (besides the GCC case) involved Linus + various folks (e.g., I believe one of the IDE subsystem developers two or three years ago). It's not necessarily a matter of conduct in the sense of rudeness (although that may well be/have been part of it), and neither is it necessarily a matter of getting booted off LKML. But it is about conduct in some broader sense, and insofar as it's direct access to Linus, it's the next best thing to LKML exile...

Greg

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Behavioral standards in the free software community

Posted Jun 8, 2006 5:43 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

This is kind of off-topic, my quite subjective view is that problem which
occurred with Andre Hedrick, who you refer to indirectly, is that he just
couldn't communicate very well with the other LKML developers. It wasn't
really a matter of hostility, just that it was very very difficult to
pass information in or out of Andre. My perception was that he wasn't
really in very strong command of certain issues that ended up being his
achilles heel, but I really couldn't say because every conversation I had
with him ended up with us both agreeing to give up trying to pass
information back and forth.

So there was _a_ problem there, but I don't think it was communication
style, not conduct.

Andre, if you read this and disagree, please do correct me. This is
_very_ subjective.