Re: No need to be a dick.
Who do you want building your kernel? Someone who eats, breathes and sleeps it and will trample over anyone and anything to do so, or someone that's aware of the "wider picture", the business case for delayed releases, the internal policitcs of large organisations?
There is room in this world for single-minded, borderline autistic obsessives - I want them building my kernels, my braking systems and my parachutes.