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roca on Feb 8, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns f...

"The email patch usually gets dealt with within a week or two" is absolutely not my experience dealing with the kernel.

Firefox and Chromium's bespoke tools have their pluses and minuses but they're a lot easier to deal with that the kernel "workflow".

arghwhat on Feb 9, 2025 [–]

That your experience is not shared suggests that the other "workflows" are not in fact objectively easier to deal with than the kernel workflow, but instead that there's a high variability in the frustration experienced across all three workflows.

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