Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 01:18:45 +0300 |
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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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