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Subject: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:47:34 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@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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