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Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more p... by eropple on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:20PM (#18085942)
No; it's just being shitty, and to be frank I think you know that.

"This code has more warnings than we accept under our process; please remedy." You aren't telling onlookers that they will be lit on fire for the temerity to contribute, you aren't causing anyone to lose face and you aren't hurting anyone. No aspersions, no chilling effects, and a positive path forward. Done and done. Everyone wins. To do otherwise is inhumane.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more p... by dleslie on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:22PM (#18086653)
> "This code has more warnings than we accept under our process; please remedy."

That fails to address the possibility that their process is broken, and so achieves the possibility of inducing technical debt when these issues will inevitably arise again.

Fixing process can be as important as fixing code.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more p... by eropple on Thursday September 27, 2018 @06:22PM (#18089344)
Sure. OK. Where does insulting people come into that?

There have been a lot of electrons perturbed dancing around that that's what we're talking about, yes?

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Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more p... by dleslie on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:52AM (#18094394)
It doesn't? But I believe that I've made my point: it was not so simple to communicate as first suggested.

I'm not pro-insult, not by any means.

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