Successful workshops are always hot places

Posted Sep 20, 2018 15:13 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: Successful workshops are always hot places by purslow
Parent article: After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (The New Yorker)

"His critics don't seem to amount to much as programming professionals, while he has created a world-changing technology."

I don't know how much I amount to as a programming professional--certainly I'm nowhere near as productive as Linus. But I am a kernel hacker and maintainer, and I tend to side with the "critics" here.

Though I wouldn't personally divide the world into critics and allies. I mean, I like and admire Linus. I just think we could do better. As does Linus, apparently.

Less yelling, more getting work done. And some policies in place for when it turns out that some developer has a sexual harassment habit.

Successful workshops are always hot places

Posted Sep 20, 2018 16:43 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Well, without Sage Sharp we possibly wouldn't have a USB3 stack, and certainly wouldn't have had one so early or of such high quality. But Sage is clearly, y'know, just some nobody. (Or not.)

Successful workshops are always hot places

Posted Sep 21, 2018 4:13 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

Early availability, yes. High quality? To this day I have to live with dmesg boot spam about missing link power-management support and sometimes USB3 ports that silently refuse to work with no explanation. One of many reasons I now regard Intel as a peddler of rushed, low-quality products.

This isn't a comment on the person who wrote those drivers, mind you. The signs all point to bad management.

Successful workshops are always hot places

Posted Sep 23, 2018 18:06 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

> dmesg boot spam about missing link power-management support

That's the USB stack noting that the *firmware* doesn't support something it would need to for power management to work, AIUI.