Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:25:27 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r189594 - head Message-ID: <20090310032527.GA24125@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <20090310021926.GA51405@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <200903091922.n29JMjLR035306@svn.freebsd.org> <20090309194338.GA48593@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20090309195805.GA53225@citylink.fud.org.nz> <20090309222705.GA49870@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20090310013810.GC22633@lonesome.com> <20090310021926.GA51405@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 07:19:26PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > Ed gave a month or more headsup that a new TTY layer was coming. He > enumerated the drivers that were broken and actively solicited people > with the affected hardware for help. He furthermore helped those > people fix as many driver as possible before committing the new TTY > layer. As part of portmgr, you know Ed also actively fixed many ports > broken by the new TTY layer and/or helped others fix the ports before > the new layer became standard. Yes, and I would like to thank Ed for this and hold him up as a model for how things ought to be done. My own approach is to do that rather than be critical. > If you and others take off your rose colored glasses, you'll see > that the USB2 transition could have been handled better. I already agreed that it could have been, so you're just putting words in my mouth at this point. Given the amount of work Andrew put in on this, I don't really feel like kicking him around. All that would do is demotivate the next person who picks up a rather large and thankless task. mcl
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