Exactly. Airing-out Hellwig’s successful attempt to sabotage Rust efforts (and it was successful, given that at least two important maintainers have already resigned) was good, actually.
Unfortunately, it seems that Linus doesn’t have the maturity to recognize that, and this cycle is likely to continue, barring something good and unforeseen happening.
I think it’s a positive cycle. There’s unfortunately a lot of emotion in kernel maintenance, and this attacks a huge part of it. Subsystem maintainers are maintainers, they don’t own the project, they just make sure the code stays in a good state. In other words, they serve the users.
Exactly. Airing-out Hellwig’s successful attempt to sabotage Rust efforts (and it was successful, given that at least two important maintainers have already resigned) was good, actually.
Unfortunately, it seems that Linus doesn’t have the maturity to recognize that, and this cycle is likely to continue, barring something good and unforeseen happening.
I think it’s a positive cycle. There’s unfortunately a lot of emotion in kernel maintenance, and this attacks a huge part of it. Subsystem maintainers are maintainers, they don’t own the project, they just make sure the code stays in a good state. In other words, they serve the users.