Nouveau kernel maintainer steps down

Re:Nouveau kernel maintainer steps down by krapp on Saturday February 15, 2025 @06:37AM (#43057783)

>I don’t get it. What does it even mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_blue_line

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043312

>It seems unrelated to them stepping down, too.

    I can't in good faith remain to be part of a project and its community
    where those words are tolerated. Those words are not technical, they are
    a political statement. Even if unintentionally, such words carry power,
    they carry meanings one needs to be aware of. They do cause an immense
    amount of harm.

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Re:Nouveau kernel maintainer steps down by sshine on Saturday February 15, 2025 @04:20PM (#43062450)

But, as he disclaims in the beginning, he wasn’t actively participating anymore. Feels like slamming the door because you were leaving anyways, not because you were angry in the first place.

It rides on the wave of FLOSS contributors leaving because of something dysfunctional, and he was leaving because he wasn’t active, but makes it about something political, since it would get read because of mentioned context.

Had he just posted his opinion and not left, it would not have been noteworthy.

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Re:Nouveau kernel maintainer steps down by krapp on Saturday February 15, 2025 @05:38PM (#43063159)

It isn't required that one be active in a community to consider oneself part of that community, or to be angry about something that community does. I see no reason to assume bad faith or doubt their sincerity of motive. Consider that the phenomenon of FLOSS contributors "leaving because of something dysfunctional" isn't simply a trend that people choose to ride on, but a sign of actual political and philosophical conflict within the community.

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