@marcan sometimes you need to bring up a storm and...

@marcan sometimes you need to bring up a storm and create a huge backlash to make people realize how broken something is.

I'm sure a lot of good developers gave up and will never try to contribute to the kernel again.

A better process makes it better for everyone

Like 14 Feb 2023 at 16:21 | Wall-to-wall | Open on kan.social

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mort

@dm @marcan Hi, I'm one of them. I have some patches to work around kernel bugs which I can't be bothered to upstream. I've tried to use FOSS mailing before, to report issues and propose bug fixes, and every single time they've just been ignored forever. It seems if you don't get attention in the first week or two there's no hope. It's just not worth it.

Compare that to GitHub/Gitlab/whatever, where I've always gotten a response, had my bug fixes merged, bug reports attended to, etc.

14 Feb 2023 at 16:58 | Open on fosstodon.org

K. Ryabitsev

@mort @dm @marcan This has nothing to do with the platform, really. I've reported many (what I consider) critical bugs to Python where they've been sitting in the shiny Github bugtracker without any movement. Your patches are ignored NOT because they were sent via email -- there's just nobody looking at them (because they are on vacation, tired, burned out, sick, etc).

14 Feb 2023 at 19:07 | Open on social.kernel.org