Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
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Re: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
#2Re: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
#3Martin has worked hard on Asahi, but comes of as looking for drama and virtue signalling oftentimes. I'd give this to Linus.
Re: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
#4If an individual maintainer can veto critical parts of the Rust for Linux project and announce they'll do everything they can to stop it, then Linus is wasting everyone else's time pretending it's a real project. It's not a proper environment to put contributors in.
Re: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
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Re: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
#6Martin has worked hard on Asahi, but comes of as looking for drama and virtue signalling oftentimes. I'd give this to Linus.
>but comes of as looking for drama and virtue signalling oftentimes
It's easier to name the major Linux FOSS projects that DON'T have drama and virtue signaling than the ones with.
If you read the Github comments on System-D, GNOME, etc, it's like watching children bickering on Sega VS Nintendo.
Turns out FOSS devs are humas just like everybody else and suffer from the same flaws.
Re: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
#7If an individual maintainer can veto critical parts of the Rust for Linux project and announce they'll do everything they can to stop it, then Linus is wasting everyone else's time pretending it's a real project. It's not a proper environment to put contributors in.
Give him time, Linus will reach out soon regarding Rust.
Re: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
#8If an individual maintainer can veto critical parts of the Rust for Linux project and announce they'll do everything they can to stop it, then Linus is wasting everyone else's time pretending it's a real project. It's not a proper environment to put contributors in.
I think it's rather silly to have some subsystem maintainers do everything in their power to sabotage the improvement projects by subsystem and even high level maintainers in the kernel.
It was a fine position to take back when introduction of Rust into the kernel was still very much a discussion point. However, the discussion is over, Rust has been accepted into the kernel. This entire struggle has been kernel developers sabotaging other kernel developers.
This infighting is only going to hurt the kernel in the long run. Every time this "discussion" comes up, I walk away with the feeling that Linux kernel developers are unreasonably hostile and impossible to work with. It makes me wonder why new people would ever bother trying to contribute anything.
That said, using social media to cause drama when a Linux maintainer is being an ass is just as stupid, if not worse. Both sides of the conflict are in the wrong here.
Re: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
#9If an individual maintainer can veto critical parts of the Rust for Linux project and announce they'll do everything they can to stop it, then Linus is wasting everyone else's time pretending it's a real project. It's not a proper environment to put contributors in.
That is not what the maintainer said. The maintainer said that for Rust code in the area he is currently maintaining. I think the main issue was, the he was not accepting second maintainer to take care the Rust part on the same area.
About the Rust code itself; the primary issue was code duplication rather than preventing the use of Rust altogether. Since the suggested code is not merged, every driver needs to write the same code over and over again. That was also something that the maintainer suggested himself (?). There is of course a big downside, but I am not sure if this justifies all the hate.
Re: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
#10Marcan certainly can be abrasive (I mean lol, so can Linus), but all the things he points out in the message below are 100% valid - I highly recommend for anyone here to try to contribute something even very small and logical to the Linux kernel or git (which use similar processes), it’s an eye-opening experience that’s incredibly unapproachable, frustrating, and demoralizing.
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/208e1fc3-cfc3-4a26-98...