From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 3 11:30:40 2003 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 0439737B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75BE43F75 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:30:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208EC8A2776; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:30:35 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:30:35 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Alexandr Kovalenko , "" Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object In-Reply-To: <20030203142143.E1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Message-ID: <20030203152823.N16840@hub.org> References: <20030203142143.E1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Alexandr Kovalenko 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