Bad Patches and Issues with other devolopers

Nick Krause xerofoify at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 14:08:36 EDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:05 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

Also Robert I starting this the wrong way be treating this as a
playground rather then
for real work and that was another mistake I made. I do feel that if
you guys give me
a second case I will listen much better and stop wasting time.
Regards Nick



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