Kees Cook: yay for barriers

Posted May 18, 2010 14:04 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Kees Cook: yay for barriers by tajyrink
Parent article: Kees Cook: yay for barriers

Oh, come on. Each large enough community contains its share of juvenile (acting) members; each of us has acted childish from time to time (and regretted it later). Please don't generalize this one dumb remark and ensuing flamefest as the normal (or even tolerated) behavior of the many people who work on the kernel or on a distro, be this Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora.

Disclaimer: I'm a long time Fedora user, and a Fedora Ambassador.

Kees Cook: yay for barriers

Posted May 20, 2010 6:16 UTC (Thu) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

True. Surely describing it as accepted culture was over the top, and juvenile things happen in every user community, no matter what policies. I do think highly active, contributing community members should be expected to have somewhat higher standards, and maybe code of conducts and such help in this regard.

I haven't recently seen any truly active Ubuntu contributors calling other distributions with names like "loldora" or such, but it probably cannot be that it wouldn't ever happen.