Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:58:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: (Hui) <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> Cc: bod@freebsdfoundation.org, brian@collab.net, calvin.austin@sun.com, rwatson@freesbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-java@freebsd.org, Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org> Subject: Re: patchset 2 report (billh's resignation) Message-ID: <XFMail.20030205185810.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20030206021823.GB4193@gnuppy.monkey.org>
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Oh, for cryin' out loud, Bill, this is ridiculous.
Folks, the entire mail exchange between Bill and me can be found
here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/huey/
Draw your own conclusions.
John
Hui wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:10:06AM -0500, Brent Verner wrote:
>> On the HotSpot note, is there any work being done on getting 1.3.1's
>> HotSpot working? AFAIR, it would not build with 1.3.1-patchset-7.
>
> BTW, I've decided after a walk to get food to withhold my patches given
> the current political climate in our development group and I'd like to
> announce my resignation from the project effective immediately... No joke.
>
> Found out about something recently that almost certainly was kept purposely
> from me some how. I haven't figured out where the failure is, so sometime
> my need to pass before the developments become more clear.
>
> The basics are that the FreeBSD Foundation is grossly dysfunctional and
> should *not* be the corporate entity group to recieve grants. That
> should be dealt with more directly by the sponsor's management layer
> if they have a desire to do support FreeBSD development.
>
> I'd like to see the removal of John Polstra as Vice President of the
> organization and for other current or potential sponsors to pressure
> either a political change or public apology along with an acknowledgement
> of this leadership failure.
>
> There are other failures closer to our group that need to be address
> too.
>
> I'll have an explanation of this soon with a psychological, social and
> polical analysis of what transpired. It's pretty amazingly fucked up.
>
> More to come...
>
> bill
>
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