Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:47:34 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers Message-ID: <12974.914813254@zippy.cdrom.com>
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OK, clearly this has blown up into a problem which requires dealing
with and so please consider this my attempt to at least communicate
with all of you and put together some "behind the scenes" information
for those who haven't had the benefit(?) of being on the core mailing
alias over the last week.
The chronology of this is as follows:
pre-3.0-RELEASE: A decision is made to switch to KLD from KLM format
modules just as soon as the kernel goes ELF, for
various interoperability reasons and the fact that KLD
modules are simply cleaner. Work is also undertaken
to convert the existing LKMs to KLDs in the tree.
3.0-RELEASE "Yay"
post-3.0-RELEASE I announce that the 3.0 branch will be created on Jan 15th.
Dec 24th Poul-Henning asks whether or not now would be a good time
to "clean up", before we actually do the branch and
end up with duplicated garbage that needs to be thrown
out twice. This seems a reasonable suggestion and a short
list of potential candidates is floated before core
and various items voted on.
Dec 26th The Danes, grumbing about how it's always them who
get the hangman's duty on account of the fact that
they have their own axes, begin putting various things
on the chopping block and cutting their bits off.
Dec 27th Core notices that some of the items which have been
beheaded during the night weren't actually on the list
and that the Danes have chosen to add a few items
of their own at the last minute.
later that day.. All hell breaks loose as various developers wonder
what the hell is going on and why no heads-up message
was ever sent out. Core is also muttering about
unauthorized assasinations and CIA operatives doing
embarassing freelance work involving popular Bostonian
presidents and such.
So anyway, just to put the minds of those who might be thinking that
core has suddenly suffered an attack of Josef Stalin disease ("I want
the entire country taken out and shot") more at ease, let me just be
the first to say that this was a cleanup expedition which was overcome
by an excess of zeal and we apologise to any developers who suddenly
felt their worlds crumbling underneath them. Even the most hardened
members of core are not much pleased about how this was actually done
and you may all rest assured that we've learned from this experience.
- Jordan
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