From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 28 15:18:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09887 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:18:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09882 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:18:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA14617; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:15:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdq14615; Mon Dec 28 23:15:39 1998 Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:15:36 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Thanks, Core Team In-Reply-To: <19981228112851.Y12346@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id PAA09883 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG join the club.... On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > OK, I'll try to summarize what I understand of the latest changes in -CURRENT: > > 1. LKMs are gone. > 2. This was decided by the core team. > 3. Nobody else was informed. > 4. In my case, my Vinum product just got dumped from the repository. > The first thing I heard was a laconic comment from Søren saying > ``Sorry for the mess, but it was overdue...'', followed by a > commit message showing them all gone. > > Well, thanks a lot. Suddenly, without any warning (but still > overdue...), my project is gone, and I have an unknown amount of work > to get back on track. The least I would have expected would be a bit > of advance warning. Instead, what do I get? > > On Sunday, 27 December 1998 at 18:20:00 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > The cleanups have been discussed in -core. > > > > -committers is a notorious unproductive and flame-prone place to > > discuss code removal. > > Well, this is certainly an unproductive and flame-prone way to perform > code removal. I'd consider it a slap in the eye for all non-core > committers. I'd be interested in knowing how you would perform it if > you were deliberately trying to annoy us. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message