Code, conflict, and conduct

Posted Sep 19, 2018 20:00 UTC (Wed) by excors (subscriber, #95769)
In reply to: Code, conflict, and conduct by rodgerd
Parent article: Code, conflict, and conduct

It's not clear to me that "Afraid of rejection" means they are personally worried about a rude or abusive response - if I was answering that survey, I'd interpret it as simply a rational concern that I might put a lot of effort into upstreaming my work and then it's still not good enough and gets rejected so I get no payoff for my effort. I'm just afraid of wasting my company's time. But it's hard to tell exactly what was meant without more context.

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Code, conflict, and conduct

Posted Sep 21, 2018 17:34 UTC (Fri) by tbird20d (subscriber, #1901) [Link]

As the author of the survey, I can say that the survey was not given in the context of querying for abusive behavior. I do not believe it can be used as evidence of the number of people who have been abused. Here is the wording that was used:

12. Please think about a single change that you made to the Linux kernel, that you did NOT submit upstream. Please answer the following questions to describe your reasons for NOT submitting your change:

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15. My change was not good enough to submit to upstream (e.g. it was a quick hack or workaround, not suitable for upstream).
Strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree

16. I was afraid my patch would be rejected.
Strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree