The Xz backdoor and a near miss on the F-Droid app store show how the entitled attitude of some people in the open source community can be used to push malicious or insecure code.
To be fair, he has to deal with a lot of nonsense in his job. A lot of companies try to push utter crap through, and if his subsystem maintainers miss something, it makes his life much more difficult. He’s merging tons of changes every day and doesn’t have the time to review everything.
So I think some righteous anger is justified here. His subsystem maintainers should know better, and his anger was usually directed at them, not some random new contributor.
Absolutely. His workload was insane and unending, and if crap code made its way through, he’d get a portion of the blame. It’s very human to lash out in the way he did, particularly when he frequently saw the same mistakes over and over again.
But it’s right that he made steps to not act in that way anymore. Linux developer burnout is bad enough even without Linus and others publicly calling you a shithead or telling you to kill yourself when you fuck up.
Yup. My point was that it’s not necessarily autism or bullying that brought us here, but years of dealing with people who should know better. I’m glad he’s toned it down though, but I did secretly enjoy reading his creative insults (and wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end).
To be fair, he has to deal with a lot of nonsense in his job. A lot of companies try to push utter crap through, and if his subsystem maintainers miss something, it makes his life much more difficult. He’s merging tons of changes every day and doesn’t have the time to review everything.
So I think some righteous anger is justified here. His subsystem maintainers should know better, and his anger was usually directed at them, not some random new contributor.
Absolutely. His workload was insane and unending, and if crap code made its way through, he’d get a portion of the blame. It’s very human to lash out in the way he did, particularly when he frequently saw the same mistakes over and over again.
But it’s right that he made steps to not act in that way anymore. Linux developer burnout is bad enough even without Linus and others publicly calling you a shithead or telling you to kill yourself when you fuck up.
Yup. My point was that it’s not necessarily autism or bullying that brought us here, but years of dealing with people who should know better. I’m glad he’s toned it down though, but I did secretly enjoy reading his creative insults (and wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end).