"reviewing by proxy" [LWN.net]

"reviewing by proxy"

Posted Oct 6, 2015 13:41 UTC (Tue) by louie (guest, #3285)
In reply to: "reviewing by proxy" by tzafrir
Parent article: Sharp: Closing a door

"They may have had various other reasons to leave."

Except, you know, several of them had *explicitly said* that's why they stopped contributing to the kernel.

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Posted Oct 7, 2015 5:51 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (2 responses)

People may be upset for various reasons and I don't fully trust their subjective report on that. However, that's not my main point.

The kernel development is alive and well. People occasionally come and go. Thus the fact that certain people left due to some reason is not meaningful enough. We all know that if it ainn't broken you should not fix it. I was hoping for someone to reply with an example of a subsystem mailing list that behaves differently, to allow comparing. However, no one gave that reply so we're left with baseless arguments.

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Posted Oct 7, 2015 13:23 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> I was hoping for someone to reply with an example of a subsystem mailing list that behaves differently, to allow comparing.

I'm on the linux raid mailing list. I've yet to see Neil Brown foulmouthing anyone ... it's a very well-behaved list ...

Cheers,
Wol

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Posted Oct 7, 2015 14:34 UTC (Wed) by malor (guest, #2973) [Link]

>We all know that if it ainn't broken you should not fix it

Losing strong developers for bad reasons is pretty broken.