Sharp: Closing a door [LWN.net]

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 5, 2015 14:46 UTC (Mon) by andrewsh (subscriber, #71043)
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It was two days ago I talked about this sort of behaviour that turns women away from open source development in general, and this was an example I given. I haven't heard for some time how this issue have been developing, and it's very sad for me that the only way left to resolve this situation was for Sarah to leave. I really hope that the outcome of this conflict will provoke some changes in the way Linux kernel is developed, and that more people will be welcomed on LKML, including Sarah.

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Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 5, 2015 15:16 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (6 responses)

Given the way this *has* developed, that happy outcome seems most unlikely to me :(

It's a real shame Sarah's given up: a knight in shining armour for civil behaviour has been defeated.

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 5, 2015 23:19 UTC (Mon) by rahvin (guest, #16953) [Link] (4 responses)

Knights for this cause frequently are. It's rather exhausting fighting for this constantly and being on edge for attacks from every direction. I don't fault her for wanting to remove stress from her life.

It's just a simple fact that no matter how passionate you are about something and no matter how much you enjoy working on something if there is someone(s) making your life hell you will eventually decide the fun isn't worth the crap you have to put up with.

I'm just surprised that more of the companies that are employees of the main developers haven't stepped up and tried to fix this, if for no other reason than protecting their own backsides from legal action.

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 6, 2015 8:34 UTC (Tue) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link] (3 responses)

> I'm just surprised that more of the companies that are employees of the main developers haven't stepped up and tried to fix this

Given the substance of large chunks of the speech given by the founder of Red Hat at LCA this year, I'm not.

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 6, 2015 13:12 UTC (Tue) by jonnor (guest, #76768) [Link] (2 responses)

Got any reference or details for us who were not there?

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 6, 2015 13:18 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Here's our report from the talk in question, but I'm not sure what the comment is referring to in particular.

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 7, 2015 7:27 UTC (Wed) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link]

Bob made the point several times about missing the good old days when people could rip into each other even more than they do now.

(The LWN report doesn't mention it, but then it also doesn't mention his long, weird, and frankly rather derogatory descriptions of his mother.)

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 6, 2015 6:37 UTC (Tue) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> It's a real shame Sarah's given up: a knight in shining armour for civil behaviour has been defeated.

Nec Hercules contra plures.