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Jonathan Corbet
The more I dig through kernel mailing list discussions, the more I think that we would do well to end the use of "NAK" entirely. It is an exercise of power that is hurtful to read and gets in the way of an actual discussion of how a patch needs to be improved. I have, in my maintainer role, never said "NAK" to a patch and plan to continue that way.

*Edited* since people are asking: NAK (or NACK) comes (I believe) from the ASCII negative-acknowledge character. In this context, is an abrupt way for a maintainer to reject a patch.
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Vegard

@corbet Proposing NAKs-per-day as a core community health metric

Graph showing NAKs per day on Linux kernel-related mailing lists. The numbers are binned per month
andreaskem

@vegard @corbet This probably needs some kind of normalization. The number of patches/contributors/maintainers is not constant over time.

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