From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 08:24:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46EB16A48E for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidxu@freebsd.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAB043D5D; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:24:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davidxu@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.my.domain (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2V8OPul034498; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:24:27 GMT (envelope-from davidxu@freebsd.org) From: David Xu To: "Dag-Erling =?utf-8?q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=" Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:24:13 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200603300730.35065.davidxu@freebsd.org> <861wwktd5r.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <861wwktd5r.fsf@xps.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603311624.13871.davidxu@freebsd.org> Cc: core@freeebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: away X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:24:28 -0000 =E5=9C=A8 Thursday 30 March 2006 18:55=EF=BC=8CDag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav Wro= te=EF=BC=9A > At the tail end of two days spent immersed in libthr, I sniped at you > on -committers. That was wrong. I understand that you were insulted. > I compounded my mistake by not apologizing immediately. I'm not > trying to defend that. >=20 > To spell it out plainly, for the record: David, what I wrote to you on > -committers was unfair and unprofessional, and I apologize. >=20 > However, I do not understand how things developed from there. I tried > to start a technical discussion with you on -threads, explaining what > I thought was wrong with libthr, hoping that you would understand my > concerns, and hoping to work with you to correct and improve the code. > This did not work out. Perhaps you had already made up your mind to > leave; perhaps you were too hurt to read anything but insult into > anything I wrote. >=20 > I am not trying to rush you, as you implied, and I would not commit my > patch without your approval; if I did, I'd be out on my arse faster > than you can say "backout war", and with good reason. > ... I accept your apology, it is not my intention to keep so long time without an clear answer, I just was a bit sad. I received lots of mail (many are in private), thanks everyone who sent mai= l=20 to me and gave me very good comments, most are encouragement, philosophic ideas. Regards, David Xu