[GTALUG] Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note

[Dhaval Giani]

https://lwn.net/Articles/764901/

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To tie this all back to the actual 4.19-rc4 release (no, really, this
> _is_ related!) I actually think that 4.19 is looking fairly good,
> things have gotten to the "calm" period of the release cycle, and I've
> talked to Greg to ask him if he'd mind finishing up 4.19 for me, so
> that I can take a break, and try to at least fix my own behavior.

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Jono Bacon's comments on it,

https://www.jonobacon.com/2018/09/16/linus-his-apology-and-why-we-should-support-him/

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Another interesting article that I read over the past few days was a Python
keynote talk,
https://snarky.ca/setting-expectations-for-open-source-participation/

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On a more personal note, I have seen "hostile" behavior on many mailing
lists, which has led me from withdrawing from participating on them.

We tend to attack developers without thinking of the impact on them.

This list is an example of attacks on systemd. While Lennart doesn't read
this list personally, I do know of the impact systemd criticism has had on
him. He has shared recordings of death threats because of systemd. I think,
we can all agree that, systemd, or pulseaudio did not make linux worse, at
least enough to justify death threats.

They haven't even made it bad enough to justify the constant attacks on the
software.

Remember, if you have a better idea, you have the _freedom_ to implement
it. You, however, do not have the freedom to expect them to drop what they
want to do, to fix your problems, and when they don't want to, be subject
to attacks from you.

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I do hope, Linus taking some time off will make things better for him, and
by extension Linux.

Dhaval
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