On Wed, 21 May 2008 22:38:04 +0200
Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:
Sigh.
There are kernel contributions which have not been submitted partly
because their developers are apprehensive about the way in which they
will be treated.
This is not theory. It is not a guess. It is not speculation. It is
empirical observation.
We have a bad reputation. I think it is largely undeserved nowadays,
because things have got a lot better. But once a reputation has stuck,
it is hard to get it unstuck.
When I am on the podium and this problem is brought up by an audience
member (as regularly happens), my usual response is to say that things
have become better, that the problem was discussed at some length at
kernel summit a few years ago (as it was) and that people generally
agreed that it was a problem and that we should do better and that we
are doing better.
And we _are_ doing better. On average. But in this area, averages
do not count. It's the maxima which are noticed.
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