It involved large parts of the Rust community, and the famous Rust developer Hector Martin (with an alter ego of Asahi Lina, a female vtuber, which he appears irrationally embarrassed about), harassing others.
Even Linus Torvalds called out Hector Martin.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/1292
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 01:19, Hector Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas.
> How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you.
> You think you know better. But the current process works.
> It has problems, but problems are a fact of life. There is no perfect.
> However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not want to have anything at all to do with your approach.
> Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell wasn't the solution to politics.
> Technical patches and discussions matter. Social media brigading - no than\k you.
> Linus
https://archive.md/uLiWX
https://archive.md/rESxe
Even Linus Torvalds called out Hector Martin.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/1292
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 01:19, Hector Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas.
> How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you.
> You think you know better. But the current process works.
> It has problems, but problems are a fact of life. There is no perfect.
> However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not want to have anything at all to do with your approach.
> Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell wasn't the solution to politics.
> Technical patches and discussions matter. Social media brigading - no than\k you.
> Linus
https://archive.md/uLiWX
https://archive.md/rESxe