Linus Torvalds suspends key Linux developer

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/040314-linux-280404.html

An argument between developers of some of the most basic parts of Linux turned heated this week, resulting in a prominent Red Hat employee and code contributor being banned from working on the Linux kernel.

Kay Sievers, a well-known open-source software engineer, is a key developer of systemd, a system management framework for Linux-based operating systems. Systemd is currently used by several prominent Linux distributions, including two of the most prominent enterprise distros, Red Hat and SUSE. It was recently announced that Ubuntu would adopt systemd in future versions as well.

Sievers was banned by kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds on Wednesday for failing to address an issue that caused systemd to interact with the Linux kernel in negative ways. Specifically, the command line entry “debug” ran both the base kernel’s debugging routine and that of systemd, potentially flooding some systems.

Torvalds bashed Sievers for lacking responsibility in a mailing list message. “Key [sic], I'm [expletive] tired of the fact that you don't fix problems in the code you write, so that the kernel then has to work around the problems you cause,” he wrote.

This is kind of a shame in that Linus's profanity-laced rants against Sievers and Poettering are one of the things that makes the Kernel mailing list interesting to read...