Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:50:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay), freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: Sitting inside, looking out... Message-ID: <199908041750.KAA30868@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199908041610.JAA19395@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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:As I recall, Stephen McKay wrote:
:> You must be unaware of the drama over Matt's commit bit, or actually,
:> lack thereof. While I quite like the idea of a FreeBSD Committer
:> T-shirt, I would feel strange wearing mine while Matt was denied one.
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:You're right. I'm unaware of any drama there.
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:If it wasn't on the -stable list, I probably didn't see it.
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: -crl
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:Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm?
Well, I suppose I would feel less well seeing others wear a
committers T-shirt when I couldn't, but even if I were a committer
I wouldn't wear a committers T-shirt. It's like thumbing one's nose
at all the developers who contribute, but aren't committers even if
it is not met to be.
Same thing goes re: a 'core' T-shirt, or any other special T-shirt. I
just don't think restricted T-shirts work for open-source projects.
For closed projects it is another story, but even there the only thing
that is readily acceptable is a company-wide T-shirt. This is how BEST
worked - *everyone* got a T-shirt, or a BEST jacket, or a BEST sweater.
This is, in fact, how LucasArts works too for the most part - any
employee can buy just about any T-shirt, even the ones that are made by
specific sub-companies. I have two ILM T-shirts that my brother bought
me, for example. There is a reason that things are done that way.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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