Kernel prepatch 4.19-rc4; Linus taking a break

Posted Sep 17, 2018 18:16 UTC (Mon) by rav (guest, #89256)
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 4.19-rc4; Linus taking a break

It's good to hear that Linus is taking a, ahem, community workflow oriented break. I'm curious about the mixture of ASCII and Unicode quotes/apostrophes:

* In "It's one thing when you can ignore these issues. Usually it’s just something I didn't want to deal with.", the first and last apostrophes are ASCII, whereas the middle one is "smart";

* In "I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately.", there's another "smart" apostrophe;

* In "I know when I really look “myself in the mirror” it will be clear it's not the only change that has to happen, but hey... You can send me suggestions in email.", there's two "smart" quotes and a single ASCII apostrophe.

Did Linus compose parts of this letter in LibreOffice/Google Docs/Microsoft Office and then write the rest in a text editor?

Kernel prepatch 4.19-rc4; Linus taking a break

Posted Sep 17, 2018 21:28 UTC (Mon) by bentley (subscriber, #93468) [Link]

This was probably something he wanted a second (or more) opinion on. There's a reasonable chance it was emailed back and forth with different people (possibly some of the same people who prompted the soul-searching), possibly including copy-pasting suggestions (written in a different editor).