Comment by softwaredoug
1 day ago
It’s amazing to me how much reality show level entertainment we get out of Linux kernel discussions. Most of us don’t have a dog in the fight, yet it’s still engaging content to watch someone else’s drama and “workplace politics” play out .
a good number of us are users of the Linux kernel so we should have a dog in this fight. So this DMA guy gets mad and start introducing junk into the code and nobody catches it, who get hurt? I hope he just steps away; it'll be better for his sanity.
Linus said that he like to work with guy and respect him technically, the DMA is stable because of him, just because one day the guy step over his fence he should be removed?, how many maintainers did something similar in 20 years?, honestly this drama is overblown by people who never saw drama in the kernel and think that rust is the first and only big change that got maintainers reluctant to merge, RT took 20 years, Rust has a lot more devs, companies and investment behind
The drama came from Hector getting fed up with being stymied by Christoph overstepping his authority, trying to go around the system by starting a social media flame war, and eventually quitting.
This is how shit gets done in the real world (pretty much anywhere) when many people are involved. So yeah, it is reality in that regard.