Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel development process, Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin has removed himself from being an upstream maintainer of the ARM Apple code.
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It has always been like this.
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This kind of stuff happens in big companies too, but you don’t see it because it’s not in a public mailing list. One of my teams had a developer who stood on tables to yell until his opinion was accepted, and one time when another developer wouldn’t back down, he threw a chair at them. That angry developer worked there for another 7 years until retirement, while many smart team members around him quit rather than continue dealing with him.
Cannot say I’ve seen a dev do that in the UK. Anyone would get fired for throwing a chair. Standing on the table yelling would probably get then a bollocking and maybe a warning.
It depends on how valuable your organization thinks you are; I used to work for a faang company and I got to experience this 2x and the person doing it faced no repercussions since they were well known rockstar software engineers.
Rock star devs are just devs that know the code so can do it faster, probably because they wrote it. Some just hack shit in.
No one is good enough to justify those behaviours.
Oh, 100% agree he should have been fired or at least put on a PIP, but my HR dept is toothless.
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Petty much. The big difference this time is that there’s a common enemy (Rust) instead of relatively isolated petty crap.
FOSS land is always going to be populated by freaks and geeks. The well socialized, talented devs get jobs at Google. It’s imrpessive the “system” works as well as it does but passion is a big motivator.