To counter with some POSITIVITY:
Of the various OSS communities I've engaged with, kernel/mm has been the most welcoming and open to accepting contribs from a hobbyist like me.
You can see that in the past I've contributed (small amounts but still not nothing) to various projects - https://ljs.io/old_patches
Go always had a culture of 'you are peons we in the core team are gods', I noticed it even a decade ago and it was hugely off-putting.
Chromium felt like a good project to contribute to, though I doubt I could have done anything significant unless I was on core team.
But with the kernel, yes there are drawbacks and issues and problems, not everybody is nice all the time, yada yada yada.
But if I can justify a patch set and show that I have the talent to do it, modulo some politics, I can get it in.
I am treated as an equal, I discuss things with people at all different levels on a sensible, technical basis despite being a minor nobody hobbyist.
It's really incredible if you think about it, and I'm very grateful it exists.
YES many things could be improved. But it's still an incredible project. And that's probably a large part of why the kernel patches page on my website is dominated by it - https://ljs.io/patches *
*Obviously a big interest in the kernel and mm is another part of that but still :)
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