From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 3 16: 5:46 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 22B9F37B401; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (papagena.rockefeller.edu [129.85.41.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1879943E4A; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:05:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: (from rsidd@localhost) by papagena.rockefeller.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h1405hD02848; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:05:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:05:43 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <20030203190543.M1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030203234013.GF70413@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.9-12smp i686 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 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > What I can say is that yes, I too have experienced > dillon the way you describe him, friendly, helpful and effective. > Unfortunately, he's not always like that. So the issue is, (a) Matt's work, and his presence on mailing lists, is very valuable (according to us users); (b) his attitude with other developers is not helpful (according to developers). Linux has faced far worse problems, with (apparently) much more prickly developers, and still worked things out. See, eg, these two related articles -- http://lwn.net/Articles/8093/ http://lwn.net/Articles/8123/ Surely some such thing can be worked out with Matt too, if he's amenable -- have him continue to contribute, both to the code and to the mailing lists (I assume he's not banned from there), but filter his commits through someone else who gets along with him (surely there must be someone who does)? It would be a pity to lose his presence totally. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message