MOSE Shorts 39 - 3 Memorable Things from the Linux Kernel Ecosystem

There are bad practices that no one should do when they get involved in opens source communities.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Greg Kroah-Hartman shares three examples from Linux history where people followed some bad patterns, which then somtimes resulted in raising the bar for everyone else.

1. Merge and Disappear
Greg shares an example where someone contributed a big change to the core parts of the kernel, and then became unreachable. It took the Linux community quite some time to unwind the changes and clean up the code. All open source communities are based…