{"id":121957,"date":"2025-02-15T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/mejntejner-drajvera-nouveau-vzyal-samootvod-iz-za-problem-s-inklyuzivnostyu-v-soobshhestve"},"modified":"2025-02-15T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T18:22:14","slug":"mejntejner-drajvera-nouveau-vzyal-samootvod-iz-za-problem-s-inklyuzivnostyu-v-soobshhestve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/mejntejner-drajvera-nouveau-vzyal-samootvod-iz-za-problem-s-inklyuzivnostyu-v-soobshhestve","title":{"rendered":"The maintainer of the Nouveau driver has withdrawn due to issues with inclusivity in the community.","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Following Hektor Martin's announcement of stepping down as maintainer and ceasing participation in the review of patches, Karol Herbst, who has been accompanying the Nouveau driver and the MMIO tracing mechanism (MMIOTRACE) working at Red Hat, also made a similar announcement. After his departure, two maintainer roles will remain in the kernel to support the Nouveau driver, who, according to Karol, are doing an excellent job. <\/p>\n
The reason given for leaving is the lack of an inclusive atmosphere among the core developers. Karol believes that in the open-source community, work should be conducted with respect, on equal terms, and without power plays. According to Karol, the last straw was a message from Theodore Ts'o, in which he compared maintainers to a \"thin blue line\" (identified with law enforcement and symbolizing the boundary between order and anarchy), striving to ensure that the code accepted into the core is maintainable and of high quality. <\/p>\n
In Karol's opinion, someone who speaks such words cannot hold the position of a maintainer, no matter how important they are to the project, and they should be excluded before they realize what these words mean to many marginalized people and the horrors they evoke in their minds. Karol is leaving because he cannot remain in a community that tolerates such language. <\/p>\n
Theodore Ts'o made the comparison to the thin blue line during the discussion about the resistance of older developers to the promotion of Rust in the core. He wrote that the power of maintainers is limited, and they cannot influence the continuation of development for changes already accepted, as they do not have the authority to command people to work on refinements and improvements to the testing infrastructure. The only tool available to ensure quality is the ability of maintainers to prevent the inclusion of raw and questionable changes in the core. Once the code is accepted, maintainers lose their leverage over developers and become personally responsible for that code. <\/p>\n
When accepting a significant change, maintainers must ensure that the change is fully functional and that its developers can support the code after it is accepted into the core and will not leave it unattended. Theodor cites examples of teams that are only interested in promoting their creation, who disappear as soon as the code is accepted and do not reappear, leaving maintainers to deal with all the shortcomings. <\/p>\n
Some have made accusations of double standards, as the code from some developers is accepted almost immediately, while code from others takes a long time to process. In this matter, established trust and a well-deserved reputation are important. If a developer has already demonstrated their ability to be accountable for submitted changes, the approvals go quickly. For newcomers, the acceptance of changes may take longer, as the reviewer must determine whether the participant can take responsibility for their code. Therefore, participants, especially those trying to promote radical changes, need to spend a lot of time to become part of the community. For example, integrating changes for building the kernel with the Clang compiler took 10 years. \n Source: opennet.ru<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"