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SubjectRe: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project
FromDavid Woodhouse <>
DateThu, 29 May 2008 01:18:45 +0300
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 16:42 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> Appeals to be politer tend to only work in the short term (having given
> quite a few of them).  I think we're developing a root cause problem in
> the way we recruit people to work in the kernel and we have to think
> about fixing it there.

Do we really have a problem recruiting people to work in the kernel? On
what do you base that observation?

On a similar note, do we have any real data on the question of whether
those who are volunteering the patches which raise so much ire would
_ever_ become productive members of the team, even if we were to nurture
them properly?

-- 
dwmw2



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