On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 08:17:30PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 16:15 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > One thing you should keep in mind in your discussion is what can happen > > if people get too polite with each other. > > > > I have seen this happen at two large companies I worked for. Early on, > > flames > > are acceptable and expected as response to someone publishing bad code which > > breaks everything for everyone. Then, at some point, it is not acceptable > > anymore to flame, and one is expected to be polite and friendly at all > > times. > > "Your code breaks the build for every platform. Would you please kindly > > consider fixing it ?" > > Result is that code quality suffers, to the point where images don't even > > build anymore. > > > > I hope the Linux kernel never gets into that stage. To avoid that, > > I am willing to be cursed at by Linus if I am the responsible party. > > Didn't Jim Zemlin show some research where there were two groups: > > One that did a bunch of brain storming where no idea was a bad idea > > The other required you to defend your idea while the others bashed it. > > The results always showed that the second group not only did a better > job, but also faster and more efficient. > > I'm afraid if we worry too much about politeness, we will fall into that > first group.
Linus already said you don't need to feer this change from him :-) Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
