From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 3 16:30:27 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 4487937B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:30:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B8043F3F for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:30:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0F5A251971; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:00:14 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:00:14 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <20030204003013.GI70413@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030203234013.GF70413@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030203190543.M1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030203190543.M1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu> 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 19:05:43 -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > 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). Yes, that's the sum of it. > 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), No. He has posted a few comments on the situation. > but filter his commits through someone else who gets along with him > (surely there must be someone who does)? This was one of the options we considered. On the face of it, it looks reasonable, but it didn't work out. > It would be a pity to lose his presence totally. Agreed. 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