LinuxCon Japan: Making kernel developers less grumpy

Have you read or seen this talk? I do not think that was the assumption at all, and I pointed out that the large majority of patches I get are just fine, but I still get lots of incorrect ones, and here are some specific examples of what not to do.

It is not my job to mentor anyone, which people here seem to forget. It is my job to guide them in how to correct incorrect code, up to a point.

For each and every maintainer to be a personal mentor to the thousands of kernel developers does not scale at all, and is not anything that anyone has ever said is the job of any kernel developer or maintainer to do.

Remember, we waste kernel engineer's time, as that is what we have a surplus of at this point (and have for the past 8 years or so.) We do this so that the project overall gets better and succeeds, and so far, we seem to be doing a good job at this. If you have statistics that point out otherwise, please let us know.