[technofiend]

>I generally believe in positivity but if I saw this as his direct report I'd move him to another project ASAP to get scrutiny on his code quality.

I'm not sure I'd start there, but I'd definitely want to understand what problem the person was trying so solve. Might be legit, might be OKR-driven development.

[somerandomqaguy]

The discussion seems to calm down a little afterwards if you follow the thread. Linus is actually making suggestions for Steven to try in his test setup:

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/04995.html