Not so interesting- fallacious irrelevancy

Posted Jul 18, 2013 10:24 UTC (Thu) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111)
In reply to: Not so interesting- fallacious irrelevancy by willnewton
Parent article: On kernel mailing list behavior

Pulling or not pulling is binary. If most of the work in a pull request is useful or necessary, there's pressure to accept the pull request. For someone who has to take hundreds of pull requests, they need to shape the work that gets sent to them by documenting their expectations very clearly, being even more clear when those expectations fail to be met, and if warranted, flaming publicly so others may learn. Documentation/ManagementStyle also mentions ways to diminish the personal impact of flames which is their obvious downside (make them humorous and over the top, reserve them to people who should know better, don't be sanctimonious, spread the love and learn to apologise).

The initial topic of the linux-stable thread was expectations and policy for -stable and late -rcs. The policy was strict in both cases, but people were sending a rather higher volume of insufficiently tested non-regression work to Greg; at which point something to the effect of will I need to shout at people? came up.