Open source software depends on collaborative effort but many contributions are lost because of the often adversarial process. How can reviewers be turned into mentors?
3. “Publicly making fun of people is half
the fun of open source programming.
In fact the main reason to eschew
programming in closed environments
is that you can't embarrass people in
public.”
– Linus Torvalds
8. “It's entirely possible that the current
user could be replaced by RCU
and/or seqlocks, and we could get rid
of brlocks entirely.”
– Linus Torvalds (Mar 9 2003)
14. Arrogance
ar·ro·gant (r-gnt)
adj.
1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-
worth or self-importance.
2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or
assumption of one's superiority toward others: an
arrogant contempt for the weak.
23. Bozeman and Feeney (2007) define mentoring
as “a process for the informal transmission of
knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial
support perceived by the recipient as relevant
to work, career, or professional development;
mentoring entails informal communication,
usually face-to-face and during a sustained
period of time, between a person who is
perceived to have greater relevant knowledge,
wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a
person who is perceived to have less (the
protègè).”