"That circle"? You make it sound like an exclusive club for the elite. This isn't supposed to be a popularity contest.
Linus' attitude is very material. Kernel leadership sets the stage for other contributors to do the same, good or bad.
Linus' attitude is very material. Kernel leadership sets the stage for other contributors to do the same, good or bad.
Stop gatekeeping.
That's not gatekeeping, that's just reality, and yes, kernel maintainers are an in-group whether we like it or not. My take on that is that if I had stuff that gets included that I couldn't care less about the attribution because what they give me is so much more than I'll ever be able to give back. Of course everybody is welcome to their own motivations, but you send unsolicited patches with the hope that they'll be used, if you get credit that's great but then the patch had better be ready to run as is and preferably for something a bit more substantial.
The hierarchy roughly goes: users -> script kiddies -> programmers -> compiler writers -> kernel devs.