Comment by bezier-curve
10 months ago
> Provoking up a mob
Isn't that also what Linus is doing but on a professional forum, which is even worse? The issue comes down to de-escalation, and there wasn't enough on both sides. It's also not unreasonable to expect more from a figure head who is a role model in open-source development in general.
A maintainer's job is to keep contributors on track and in line so the project moves in the right direction, and he did so on the forum in which it's supposed to happen. Not sure what the issue is.