Re: Commitfest problems

On 2014-12-18 10:02:25 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I think a lot of hackers forget exactly how tender their egos are. Now I say
> this knowing that a lot of them will go, "Oh give me a break" but as someone
> who employs hackers, deals with open source AND normal people :P every
> single day, I can tell you without a single inch of sarcasm that petting
> egos is one of the ways you get things done in the open source (and really
> any male dominated) community.

To me that's a bit over the top stereotyping.

> However, doing crappy work and let's not be shy about it, there is NOTHING
> fun about reviewing someone else's code needs to have incentive.

FWIW, I don't agree with this at all. Reviewing code can be quite
interesting - with the one constraint that the problem the patch solves
needs to be somewhat interesting. The latter is what I think gets many
of the more experienced reviewers - lots of the patches just solve stuff
they don't care about.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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