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Getting the right kind of contributionsGetting the right kind of contributionsPosted May 28, 2008 19:04 UTC (Wed) by clump (subscriber, #27801)Parent article: Getting the right kind of contributions
I fully appreciate the value of diplomacy, but I didn't think Viro's comment was all that offensive. It's clearly a joke as nobody would permit a "wanking" list. As the article points out, wander over to OpenBSD to see how far from diplomatic you may be treated. We've all seen comment threads here on LWN that have been a little less than diplomatic. Yet kernel devs still post here, a wide diversity of opinion still exists, and people (so far as I know) aren't turned away.
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Getting the right kind of contributions Posted May 28, 2008 19:46 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link] people (so far as I know) aren't turned away.LWN mentioned a couple of times that e.g. Asian would-be contributors are afraid of the flames and do not contribute in the end.
Getting the right kind of contributions Posted May 28, 2008 20:27 UTC (Wed) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link] If I may play devil's advocate, wouldn't you agree that to be a decent contributor you'd have to be involved with the kernel community? And that being involved would inevitably require reading a fair portion of LKML? Anyone willing to send a patch to LKML should be familiar with how LKML operates -- and therefore shouldn't be surprised at the reaction to an unwelcome patch. Your point is valid, in that Asian cultures might be more deterred than others. It would be difficult to quantify who was offended and therefore didn't participate.
Getting the right kind of contributions Posted May 28, 2008 21:55 UTC (Wed) by chromatic (guest, #26207) [Link] I've often seen that diabolical argument used to justify the relative lack of participation from anyone other than mostly young, introverted, Caucasian, middle-class males. There's definitely something to the argument that people unwilling to participate won't participate, but encouraging artificial barriers to participation from people who might otherwise participate seems counterproductive.
Getting the right kind of contributions Posted May 29, 2008 9:44 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link] If I remember correctly, the story was about an embedded system maker who modified the Linux kernel to support its system but didn't submit the patches because didn't want to put up with flames.
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