karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social)
chaos.social
I'm formally stepping down as a nouveau kernel maintainer. I want to stress out this is only for the kernel side of things and has and will not have any impact on my involvement in mesa. Don't really want to add too much here, just that things need to change. Recent events (tm) is just another example of the deep disagreement. I won't be able to convince people I made up my mind on my own here, so I won't bother with it anyway. Full upstream and public statement here: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2025-February/046677.html

Following the R4L debacle “you are cancer, you are the problem, we are the thin blue line”, another maintainer steps down from the Linux Kernel

  • jevans ⁂@lemmy.mlEnglish
    181·
    6 days ago

    Yeah, this looks like trying to avoid conflict by shutting down a person pushing back against bad behavior, instead of trying to mediate the situation to come to a just resolution. It’s shallow and gross and not sustainable.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I think it’s a big flaw of the mailing list system of the kernel development. Marcan’s reaction led to everyone trying to “protect the thread” from being “derailed” and ignore the actual comments that in themselves should’ve been discussed properly.

      Even leads to people here saying Marcan overreacted when I think on other social media platforms this would’ve been its own conversation separate to the conduct of other users.

      I say this purely speculatively since I havent ever held a longrunning group convo in a mailing list intentionally.

      • jevans ⁂@lemmy.mlEnglish
        151·
        6 days ago

        Linus is definitely not American. That is no excuse he way he just ignored the dma maintainer’s behavior and that is no excuse for why nobody in leadership did or said anything even after the connotation of the phrase was explained by another in the thread. The only thing that brought enough attention for any comment was marcan’s responses, and Linus just basically came in and said to stop making noise.