Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Steigerwald <> | Subject | Re: […] an apology, and a maintainership note | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2018 10:53:32 +0200 |
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Martin Steigerwald - 17.09.18, 09:57: > Dear Linus. > > Linus Torvalds - 16.09.18, 21:22: > > This is my reality. I am not an emotionally empathetic kind of > > person and that probably doesn't come as a big surprise to anybody. > > Least of all me. The fact that I then misread people and don't > > realize (for years) how badly I've judged a situation and > > contributed to an unprofessional environment is not good. > > > > This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of > > not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been > > both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I > > made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense > > to me. I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry. > > > > The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat > > painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my > > behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal > > behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development > > entirely. > > I applaud you for the courage to go the bold step you have gone with > this mail. I can imagine coming up with this mail has been challenging > for you. > > Your step provides a big chance for a shift to happen towards a more > welcoming and friendly Linux kernel community. From what I saw here as > mostly someone who tests rc kernels and as mostly a by-stander of > kernel development you may not be the only one here having challenges > to deal with emotions.
That written: Quite some of the rude mails that contained swearwords I read from you have been about code, not persons. I think this is an important distinction. I do not have much of an issue with swearing at code :), especially when it is in some humorous way.
Code quality indeed is important.
As are human interactions.
-- Martin
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