Bad Patches and Issues with other devolopers

Nick Krause xerofoify at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 14:45:03 EDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Lidza Louina <lidza.louina at gmail.com> wrote:
> I still highly recommend that you talk to someone.
>
> Lidza
>
> On Aug 6, 2014 2:33 PM, "Nick Krause" <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >> >
>> >> > Twitter:
>> >> > http://twitter.com/rpjday
>> >> > LinkedIn:
>> >> > http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
>> >> >
>> >> > ========================================================================
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> 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
Talk about what ? The issue is my listening.
Cheers Nick



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