From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 3 18:30:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3304615A2E for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:30:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA10109; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 02:30:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA04287; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 02:29:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199906040129.CAA04287@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Matthew Dillon , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:21:11 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 02:29:37 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > 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 Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message