Bad Patches and Issues with other devolopers

Nick Krause xerofoify at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 14:33:12 EDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Lidza Louina <lidza.louina at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nick, stop sending patches and emails. Go talk to someone in real life, have
> them to look at the emails and talk to them about it.
> Talk to someone that understands your communication style and can explain
> these things to you in a way that you can understand it. You are making
> things worse by trying to contact people that you have annoyed.
>
> Step away from the computer and talk to someone in real life because none of
> the emails and suggestions people have given seem to be helping you.
>
> Lidza
>
> On Aug 6, 2014 2:13 PM, "Nick Krause" <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:48:14 +0100, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar said:
>> >>
>> >> > oh man you have gained prominence in vger?
>> >> > They have banned you from vger.
>> >>
>> >> Wow. I've been around for a dozen years or so, and can't remember
>> >> *that* ever happening before. That takes some *major* doing, and
>> >> could take literally years to straighten out.  How to approach that?
>> >
>> >   *sigh* ... the fact that nick has, *single-handedly*, pissed off and
>> > wasted the time of numerous subsystem maintainers to the point where
>> > he has been banned from LKML and has, in addition, *single-handedly*
>> > turned the kernel newbies mailing list into his personal self-help
>> > playground means that he needs to be shown the door.
>> >
>> >   i don't want to sound unsympathetic, but it doesn't *matter* if this
>> > is nick's fault or not -- he is, quite simply, a disruptive influence
>> > and is, at the moment, turning this mailing list into chaos.
>> >
>> >   people are asking, can he be salvaged? to which the proper answer
>> > is, who cares? there are a *lot* of kernel newbies out there who would
>> > desperately like to get to the point where *they* can start submitting
>> > patches, and most of *those* people are willing to read and listen and
>> > follow the advice of the veterans to the point where they become
>> > useful contributors. nick is not.
>> >
>> >   it's massively ironic that countless people have told nick what he
>> > should be doing, to which his inveitable response is, "ok, but what
>> > should i be doing?"
>> >
>> >   if you want to help nick, knock yourself out but take it offline.
>> > nick has already wasted far too much bandwidth that could have been
>> > invested in helping newbies that are willing to *listen*.
>> >
>> > rday
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > ========================================================================
>> > Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
>> >                         http://crashcourse.ca
>> >
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>> > ========================================================================
>> >
>>
>> Robert,
>> I am trying to listen now and this was my fault.
>> Regards  Nick
>>
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Lidza,
I am fine here. I didn't listen and that is the key issue if people
don't want to give me a second change that's
fine.
Cheers Nick



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