On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 9, 2014 13:27 UTC (Thu) by niner (guest, #26151)
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

I came across this video which while not being about Lennart Poettering explains the social dynamics very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w
To all involved in this discussion, please take the 19 minutes to watch it.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 10, 2014 4:12 UTC (Fri) by misc (subscriber, #73730) [Link] (1 responses)

There is indeed a lot of similarity.

Phil Fish is being called arrogant, like Lennart is.

The whole fact that people complain about pulseaudio bugs and the fact that systemd is held to a higher standard than all others software ( like "not enough documentation", or "moving too fast and not having stable internals", or "not respecting some unix dogma", stuff we never criticized on lots of others stuff )which parallel the complains about tigsource and unfinished games.

The meme that Lennart should not be able to decide, despites the fact that distribution did adopt systemd, kinda like they speak of Nickelback and the fact that people do listen to the band.

The whole part about press too, since there is part of the press that blow stuff out of proportion ( and also for Linus, or any others topics ). I guess I do not need to direct people to Phoronix who push 1 article per week ( which is in itself likely what people want to read since they comment a lot ).

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 15, 2014 15:45 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

But, but, of *course* systemd is held to a higher standard than other software! So is glibc, for the same reason: if it doesn't work, your system won't boot, and if it changes much the backward-compatibility costs it imposes on users are enormous.

glibc gets this right. I'm not so sure about systemd, though it seems to be calming down a bit.