> However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not want to have anything at all to do with your approach.
> Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell wasn't the solution to politics.
To me, it sure sounds like Marcan is making the case that they tried other venues, didn't feel like it worked, so they resolved to using their social media following to shame kernel developers if they didn't stop.
> To back up Sima here, we don't need grandstanding, brigading, playing
> to the crowd, streamer drama creation or any of that in discussions
> around this.
Marcan replied (https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/208e1fc3-cfc3-4a26-98...):
> If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas.
Then Linus replied (https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wi=ZmP2=TmHsFSU...):
> However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not want to have anything at all to do with your approach.
> Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell wasn't the solution to politics.
To me, it sure sounds like Marcan is making the case that they tried other venues, didn't feel like it worked, so they resolved to using their social media following to shame kernel developers if they didn't stop.