Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:29:19 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_prot.c Message-ID: <200203260029.g2Q0TJR82979@apollo.backplane.com> References: <XFMail.20020325143151.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200203252126.g2PLQX482425@apollo.backplane.com> <20020325141919.J83340@nexus.root.com>
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: If there is anything that I've gotten out of your long message (and
:the countless other emails from you in the past), it would be that you
:have absolutely no clue what being a team player means and that the word
:"collaboration" isn't in your vocabulary.
You know, I'm getting rather sick and tired of this 'not a team player'
crap. It's as though all of my collaborations with people like
Kirk McKusick, or Julian (whos been over to my house on several occassions
to discuss KSE related material), or Jeff, or the various developers and
users whom I help track down bugs, all of which is reflected on the lists
and in the commit logs, is somehow made meaningless.
It takes two-way communication to be a team player, and I can tell you
that if you believe that John and Jake are being team players by
basically telling me throw away 40 hours worth of good solid work
without at least supplying a reason why, other then that they feel
its too soon, then there is something seriously wrong with your
thinking processes. You try dealing with someone telling you to
throw away that amount of work without good reason, and YOU try to
dealing with people accusing you of things that are simply not true,
and see how long you can stay civil!
I have been accused with interfering with John's ucred work, with
breaking APIs, with breaking preemption, with breaking the other
architectures.
WELL, GUESS WHAT! NONE OF IT HAS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE! Has anyone
apologized to me? No. And yet all of these accusations were used
together to justify forcing me to (B) backout the commit I had done
and (B) to grind me into the asphalt.
Well, I HAVE NOT interfered with John's ucred work. His commit, 4 weeks
later, was almost precisely my commit. Unless you consider the 10
seconds of merge work John would have had to do, there was no
interference. I HAVE NOT broken any APIs. In fact, my original
stage-1 critical*() code required no changes whatsoever to the
other architectures. I HAVE NOT broken preemption (I repeatedly
asked John to clarify how exactly my work was breaking preemption and
he never answered). I have NOT broken the other architectures. In
fact, I took great pains to avoid breaking the other architectures in
that original commit.
And, most certainly, I have NOT been working in a vacuum. This
was all on the lists WHILE I WAS WORKING ON THE PATCHES, and until
the John/Jake & friends clique brought it to a screeching halt it
was going just fine. I have gone OUT OF MY WAY to compromise by
trying to commit things incrementally. I have stated in no uncertain
terms that I have NO PROBLEM making adjustments to the code. I like
to develop incrementally, I do not expect any of my commits to be set in
stone.
So whos not being a team player now? Is it poor Matt whos being reamed
by those who refuse to explain themselves or address the issues he
brings up directly, or is it those who believe that they are being team
players by making blind accusations that turn out not be true without
bothering to research the issues first or even apologize.
I'll tell, this is over the top. You should have no expectation that
I will crawl into a corner here. You should, I believe, make every
effort to answer the straightforward questions that I've been trying
to have answered for the last four weeks in as direct a fashion as
possible, without tryging to wiggle out of it. And if you find you
can't, then you should look to other places for the reasons why rather
then simply blaming me for all of your ills.
It is amazing to me how much wiggling around you people do to avoid
answering a simple question. I'm wondering if John will at least
try to answer my straightforward question about why he simply could not
allow me to commit my kern_prot.c patches since it is effectively what
he comitted four weeks later. John, can you answer that one question?
What's the problem?
-Matt
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