Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 02:29:37 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12) Message-ID: <199906040129.CAA04287@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:21:11 EDT." <v04011704b37ca6d271aa@[128.113.24.47]>
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> Someone who has this much spare energy for tracking down ancient
> problems in technologically-uninteresting code should be getting
> some reward for it. In a project like this, it seems to me that
> the standard reward is a certain degree of respect, and I think
> Matt's recent work has earned him a bit more respect than he seems
> to be getting.
[.....]
IMHO Matt is respected far more than you think. But as he points out
himself, you never get to see that respect - you just tend to get
dumped on from a great height when you do anything slightly wrong -
even if that wrongness is just a different way of doing things.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@uk.FreeBSD.org>
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