Re: encouraging developer participation

From: Mark Hahn (hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 15:13:36 EST


> The point: Do you want the kernel development to be a friendly
> environment that encourages people to participate by running
> beta code and providing bug reports and fixes? My experience

why is "friendly" important? any system needs negative feedback,
and in this case, your report and fix were for a non-bug.
Linus is usually not interested in purely cosmetic changes,
especially ones which tempt people to do officially wrong things,
like compile without -O.

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