Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:03:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Current state of Vinum Message-ID: <20000416170306.J72816@freebie.lemis.com>
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I have removed the MAINTAINER line in the Vinum Makefiles. This
reflects that fact that I am no longer prepared to maintain the
product in an interrupt driven mode.
Yesterday, Poul-Henning Kamp committed a number of changes to the
system which required a number of changes to Vinum code. He sent me
some patches to review with the choice of committing them or breaking
Vinum. I received these patches on a Saturday morning just before
leaving for a day trip. I asked him to do neither, but when I got
back home I found that he had opted for breaking Vinum.
This is not the first time that Poul-Henning has made me jump to fix
things so that his commits can proceed in the time frame that he sees
fit. At the time, I was still trying to fix bugs discovered after his
last commits a few weeks back. I am not prepared to put up with this
kind of unprofessional and uncooperative treatment.
Of course, I have complained to -core. I consider Poul-Henning to
have offended against the following rules:
1. Respect other committers.
5. Any disputed change must be backed out pending resolution of
the dispute if requested by a MAINTAINER or the principal
architect. Security related changes may override a MAINTAINER's
wishes at the Security Officer's discretion.
10. Test your changes before committing them.
The feedback I got from core could be summed up as "there's not much
we can do about it". As a result of this, we've sparked off a side
discussion about how to make -core more effective. For the sake of
the project, I believe that we need to do something here. In the
meantime, however, I have decided to take some time off and let
anybody who wants try to fix things. I'm always prepared to review
changes, given reasonable time.
Greg
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