Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:12:16 -0400 (EDT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Conspiracy Theories (Was: Re: The future of the bt848 driver? (FW: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail) ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980729151033.11716T-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <671.901739120@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > Since I've started using FreeBSD, and been a member of these > >lists, the names that stick out, some possibly erroneously associated: > > > > Jordan: head honcho/businessman/hacker/jack of all trades > > Amancio: Multimedia guru > > John Dyson: VM god > > You: Networking > > > Who *is* on core? What do they bring to the project to earn them > >that 'status'? Is there somewhere where this is clearly posted? > > You can see the list of the core team in the handbook. > > They bring overall political and architectural steeing to the project. > > We have earned the status by having earned it in the eyes of the core > team that invited us to join. > > Amancio was asked not to let his personal differences with sos get > in front of his role as maintainer, got pissed off by this and left. > > The only reason he ever got commit bit was to maintain that very > driver, since he has stomped away, his bit gets cleared. > > John Dyson went out a tangent and lost all contact with the core > team, some will even say he went "balistic", in either case, he > attained escape velocity, and that is the end of that story. Thank you Poul-Henning...this is probably the best response on this thread that I have seen yet...clear, concise, and, I think, more information on the Dyson issue then I've seen yet... I'll shut up now :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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