From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 3 15:28:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF5F37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:28:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9796243F43 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:28:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9BEAE51971; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:58:37 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:58:37 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Jamie Bowden Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Rahul Siddharthan , Alexandr Kovalenko , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <20030203232837.GE70413@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030203121655.Q84870-100000@moo.sysabend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030203121655.Q84870-100000@moo.sysabend.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 3 February 2003 at 12:36:43 -0800, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >> Rahul Siddharthan 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