Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:58:37 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <20030203232837.GE70413@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030203121655.Q84870-100000@moo.sysabend.org> References: <xzpbs1t6sm4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030203121655.Q84870-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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On Monday, 3 February 2003 at 12:36:43 -0800, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >> Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes: >>> [why was Matt Dillon's commit bit removed] >> >> Short version: there was a difference of opinions. >> >> As for the long version - there are probably as many versions of this >> story as there are people involved in it. >> >> My advice is to let it lie. > > So Matt Dillon, after spending gobs of time learning all that Dyson did > for us (yet another VM guru driven out), and then improving on it gets the > same treatment in the end? John left on his own terms, but from an > outside observer's view, it was pretty obvious he wasn't missed in -core > by very many. It's interesting how outside views can be inaccurate. dyson *was* missed. But we discovered that he was replaceable. I'd suggest you take a look at recent commit statistics in the VM subtree. You may not even recognize the name of the person who's doing most of the work at the moment. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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