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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:56:42 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc:        Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-core@FreeBSD.ORG, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object
Message-ID:  <20030204075642.B3230@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <a05200f18ba64b426c620@[10.0.1.2]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 01:21:33AM %2B0100
References:  <20030203185401.GA31527@nevermind.kiev.ua> <a05200f18ba64b426c620@[10.0.1.2]>

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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 01:21:33AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 8:54 PM +0200 2003/02/03, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
> 
> >  I think we (FreeBSD users/contributors community) need to know why. I
> >  suspect it was a some internal war (maybe offending postings/commit
> >  logs/etc) I don't know exactly what it was. I don't think it was enough
> >  to remove his commit bit. With that reason we then should also remove
> >  obrien@'s commit bit (he also was a little bit offending sometimes).
> 
> 	Yes, Matt was one of the more productive people on the project. 
> However, historically he has also been one of the most obnoxious.  It 
> was cross-fire between him and PHK that cost me any possibility of 
> ever working for Jordan Hubbard and company-de-jure, but considering 
> that Jordan is now gone and the company has cratered, that's probably 
> not a loss.
> 
> 	With talented people like this, you tend to make allowances.  But 
> that can only go so far.  Keep in mind that this is not the first 
> time he has lost his commit bit.
> 
> 
> 	Indeed, it's ironic that Mark was the one to remove his commit 
> bit this time.  Mark was strongly encouraging me to get more heavily 
> involved in FreeBSD again (after my previous mis-encounters with 
> Jordan), and he was praising Matt as having actually calmed down and 
> become a much more civil person, etc....
> 
> 	For Mark to have been the person to remove Matt's commit bit, I 
> know that this process would have to have been by consensus 
> throughout -core, and I know that it must have have really hurt him 
> to have to be the person to do it.

It was Mark acting on behalf of core, and any of the core members
could have sent the message. There really is no special meaning to 
be attached to Mark doing the deed.

Just FYI.

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