Comment by palata
3 years ago
Respectfully, you really, seriously need to work on your communication skills. You seem to be doing good work and I respect that (I use Mull, for one), but... you systematically sound fairly aggressive and complaining about everybody. Just for that I wouldn't want to contribute to any of your projects, and I wouldn't want to depend too much on them either (who knows who you will piss off next and where your projects will go).
For instance, let's look at what you describe here as "my PR was fixing a ton of stuff but it was ignored and closed".
First, the title of your PR is "Make the kernel less awful"... really? How would you feel if I opened a PR saying "Make DivestOS suck a little less, but let's be honest, it will still be a piece of shit after that"?
Not even mentioning that you say "Untested, but shouldn't require more than a handful drop/reverts". So you just come and drop a huge PR that you haven't tested, and then you complain that others don't pick it up?
Before closing your PR, the maintainer said:
> Don't get me wrong, it's impressive, but there's no way I'm going to merge this. You can't send someone 424 patches to a repo and expect them to stop everything they're doing for a month and checking them one by one in case just one of them fucks up the entire system (or contains some kind of malicious code), even less so on a 3.18.140 kernel that originally comes from Qualcomm.
That is very fair, and I would not call that "being ignored" at all.
Keep up the good work, and learn to communicate in a constructive way!
Btw this is a great case for Chatgpt.
I am also aggressive over the internet. I don't know why. I'm so chill IRL.
Ive learned to copypaste my message and ask chatgpt to make it nice, but not eliminate the point.
I don't copypaste what it says, but I do find sentences that are nice, but still make my point. Its sooo good.
That is an interesting take indeed. And I respect the fact that you realized that you sound aggressive online and took action.
I will actually think about that: English is not my first language, and I feel like I sometimes unwillingly sound aggressive.
> awful
I think most people agree that such an ancient kernel is awful and can understand the comical take of that title. No where have I claimed their project is bad.
> So you just come and drop a huge PR that you haven't tested
I actually wrote a response to this in this thread, but the parent comment was deleted.
tl;dr I had actually compared it to match kernel, for the original Google Pixel, and fixed it like matching so it was actually quite likely to work.
> I think most people agree that such an ancient kernel is awful and can understand the comical take of that title.
I did not find it comical at all, and I thought you were a jerk. And I have read many messages from you in different places (HN, the /e/ forums, git repos, etc), and every single time, I think you are a jerk.
Also my post above has a score of +17 (honestly I never get that many upvotes here), so I wouldn't think that most people think your PR was comical.
You can choose to ignore this and keep believing that most people find you funny, or you can try to reflect on it and possibly improve your communication skills.
I don't really care, to be honest. I just wouldn't want to work with you given how you communicate online.
I never claimed to be funny, but I think how you seek me out each time to call me names is.
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