Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:39:57 -0700 | From | Sarah Sharp <> | Subject | Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review) |
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:18:21AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:12:35PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > I *hate* both direct personal insults and indirect personal insults. > > Neither should be acceptable in our community. > > > > As I stated in an email to Rusty, what I'm objecting to here is not > > kernel developers criticizing code. I'm objecting to personal attacks, > > and developers directing personal verbal abuse towards each other. This > > include all developers, not just Linus. > > Well, there are people like me who don't mind getting personally > insulted but who are really pained when their work is criticized. > > You'd rather tell me I'm a fucking moron than all what I carefully > designed, wrote and tested is pure crap. Probably that part of the > reason is that I'm as I am and I'm not really responsible for this, > so I don't care. Call me ugly if you want, why should I bother ? But > if you tell me I did some crap, it's entirely my fault and that hurts > a lot more.
I think we come from different perspectives here. I can change my code. Therefore, I don't mind my code being insulted. I cannot change myself. Therefore, I don't want to read verbal abuse directed at me personally.
Things get blurred when we're talking about something a person did. I can change how I act as a maintainer. Therefore, tell me politely what I did wrong, and I will change it.
> So you want criticism to change focus for good, but it will not > necessarily achieve the result you're expecting. Maybe we can lose > more talented people by telling them their work is pure crap because > we did not understand it than telling them they're stupid and let > them argument their choices. At least I don't claim to know which > one is better, all I can say is that what we have right now works > well enough in my opinion.
We can tell them their code is bad without calling it crap. Cussing them out is just a lazy shortcut.
Sarah Sharp
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