From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 01:11:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01211 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 01:11:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (sj-dsl-9-129-138.dspeed.net [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01204; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 01:11:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA59068; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 01:10:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199901030910.BAA59068@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) cc: chris@netmonger.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wanton Atticizing is bad In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Jan 1999 00:52:51 PST." <199901030852.AAA19134@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 01:10:29 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * From: Christopher Masto > > * What I'm getting at is that if we want to stand a chance of being able > * to increase FreeBSD's visibility, it has to be _useful_ to _more_ > * people. It seems like some of these drivers are being removed simply > * because nobody on the core team uses them. Hell, I don't use most of > > Whoa! Not so fast my friend. It was not the core consensus to remove > them, and some of them have already been ressurected, with others > pending discussion. > > We have every intent to keep drivers that people are using, please > don't jump to conclusions just because a couple of core members went > overboard with their cvs priviledges. ;) > Actually, at least one of those core members went over board in the past with their commit priviliges. This is my *second* request for a form or procedure to deal with -core members when they step over their boundaries specially when the code in question is not theirs nor is their field of expertise. The result of my little fiasco with -core caused me my cvs commit priviliges and I voluntarily ceased all multimedia work for FreeBSD because I couldn't defend the multimedia's group code in the source tree against -core. Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message