From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1374027494.2537.47.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> References: <20130715195316.GF15531@xanatos> <20130715204135.GH15531@xanatos> <1373926109.17876.221.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130715223615.GI15531@xanatos> <20130716211235.GG4994@xanatos> <20130716212704.GB9371@thunk.org> <20130716224357.GK4994@xanatos> <20130716235008.GC9371@thunk.org> <1374027494.2537.47.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:02:40 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review) From: Linus Torvalds To: Ben Hutchings Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Sarah Sharp , David Lang , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Darren Hart , Ingo Molnar , Olivier Galibert , stable , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Willy Tarreau Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > In fact, even in the pull request that's referenced here, Linus, you > were polite but firm in your first two responses. When you're perfectly > capable of doing that, why spoil it by adding insults? Umm. Notice how the "Joseph" I replied to had deleted all the comments he wrote? That should tell you something. I smacked down a troll. If I was polite to you all those years ago, and I was polite but firm in the two first responses, please give me credit for when I smack somebody down. There may be a reason for it. The fact that the person deleted his messages (or github deleted them for him - I have no idea what their comment policy is) and you cannot see that context any more online should not make you think that I suddenly went crazy. Btw, since I get the github messages in email too, I have a copy. Joseph replied to those "polite but firm" messages where I explained exactly *why* I don't want to bother with github pull requests with this gem: "I did not realizes that Linus' shit does not stink. Thanks for clearing that up..." Quite frankly, I think I was quite polite enough. Exactly *because* I had been polite but firm before that injection. The fact is, I don't suffer fools nicely. I call it like I see it, and I called him a moron for entering the discussion with a totally content-free comment. Feel free to disagree. Maybe you see some value in the troll comment? And I somehow suspect that your message that I replied to back in 1999 was somehow more relevant? Yes? No? Linus