Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:30:35 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>, "" <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <20030203152823.N16840@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20030203142143.E1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu> References: <20030203142143.E1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
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On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> wrote: > > I don't think that reason for removing dillon@'s commit bit is very > > secret. Why it was not publishied, only Message-Id: from closed > > developers@ list? > > While I hate to pick up on a topic first posted by the project's pet > troll, I have to second Alexandr here. As a longtime user I certainly > want to know: what's going on? > > Dillon isn't any ordinary committer -- he is perhaps the guy most > responsible for making FreeBSD 4.x the most rugged and stress-proof > free operating system in existence. (Not to mention his indirect > contributions to fixing the linux VM: his reputation extends beyond > FreeBSD.) The mailing list archives offer no clue. Surely some > explanation, and not just to developers@, is required when his name is > scratched out. Considering that he was instrumental in ferreting out some deep VM issues in v4.x in a loaded environment on my servers ... I'm a lot concerned here as well ... Matt step'd up to the proverbial plate when nobody else would, sinc ethey were too engross'd/busy with 5.x to care :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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