From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 07:18:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D2316A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:18:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (user-0cdfenm.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.186.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 585F843D31 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@online.fr) Received: (qmail 691 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Jan 2004 15:18:31 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:18:31 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brad Knowles Message-ID: <20040107151831.GA666@online.fr> References: <20040107041307.GA1674@online.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.23 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:18:33 -0000 Brad Knowles said on Jan 7, 2004 at 12:55:25: > At 11:13 PM -0500 2004/01/06, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > So Matt was easy with newbies and aggressive with other developers. > > There was much more fallout from that than you indicate. Being > pissy with other developers meant being pissy in general on the > -current mailing list, I follow -current quite a lot, and I only ever saw one example where he lost his cool. I don't know about -developers, private mail, etc. I took the "official" explanation at face value back then. I no longer do. It looks more like he was at the wrong end of a personality clash. These things happen and this by itself wouldn't be so bad, but it comes together with everything else in the past year or two. > Personally, I would like very much to see Matt return to the > FreeBSD project Not likely, he has his own space now which is for the best and his project looks exciting. And when he recently commented on -current on the dynamic /bin issue and gave his ideas on how one can use ipc to implement nsswitch in static binaries, he got jumped on by Scott Long. Rahul