From owner-freebsd-java Wed Feb 5 18:58:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F1637B405; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:58:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A092443FB1; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:58:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from strings.polstra.com (strings.polstra.com [206.213.73.20]) by wall.polstra.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h162wAu4032843; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:58:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030206021823.GB4193@gnuppy.monkey.org> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:58:10 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: (Hui) Subject: Re: patchset 2 report (billh's resignation) Cc: bod@freebsdfoundation.org, brian@collab.net, calvin.austin@sun.com, rwatson@freesbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-java@freebsd.org, Brent Verner Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Oh, for cryin' out loud, Bill, this is ridiculous. Folks, the entire mail exchange between Bill and me can be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/huey/ Draw your own conclusions. John Hui wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:10:06AM -0500, Brent Verner wrote: >> On the HotSpot note, is there any work being done on getting 1.3.1's >> HotSpot working? AFAIR, it would not build with 1.3.1-patchset-7. > > BTW, I've decided after a walk to get food to withhold my patches given > the current political climate in our development group and I'd like to > announce my resignation from the project effective immediately... No joke. > > Found out about something recently that almost certainly was kept purposely > from me some how. I haven't figured out where the failure is, so sometime > my need to pass before the developments become more clear. > > The basics are that the FreeBSD Foundation is grossly dysfunctional and > should *not* be the corporate entity group to recieve grants. That > should be dealt with more directly by the sponsor's management layer > if they have a desire to do support FreeBSD development. > > I'd like to see the removal of John Polstra as Vice President of the > organization and for other current or potential sponsors to pressure > either a political change or public apology along with an acknowledgement > of this leadership failure. > > There are other failures closer to our group that need to be address > too. > > I'll have an explanation of this soon with a psychological, social and > polical analysis of what transpired. It's pretty amazingly fucked up. > > More to come... > > bill > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message