From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 21: 7:41 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 A95A237B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 21:07:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2A543F75 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 21:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: from user-0cev12u.cable.mindspring.com ([24.239.132.94] helo=bluerondo) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18geG4-0005hb-01 for chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:07:32 -0800 Received: (qmail 4700 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Feb 2003 05:07:29 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 00:07:28 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: John Polstra Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patchset 2 report (billh's resignation) Message-ID: <20030206050728.GA4651@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 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 [cc greatly trimmed] John Polstra wrote: > Folks, the entire mail exchange between Bill and me can be found > here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/huey/ > > Draw your own conclusions. I don't have any conclusions, only a question: is *everyone* at the top echelons of FreeBSD a complete and utter asshole? I mean, were you trying hard to be so stuffy, pompous, condescending and rude to a valuable developer, or do these things just come naturally to you? And what exactly did you hope to achieve by posting that correspondence for all to read? If this is the attitude of so many old-timers on the project, no wonder Matt Dillon couldn't get along with them. I was beginning to get persuaded by some of the core members' postings that they may have been justified in removing him, but this makes me rethink. I've never met any FreeBSD people in person, I know nothing about any of them beyond the publicly posted mailing list email and occasional private mail. But judging by that record, Dillon is far more polite and reasonable, and has much better social skills, than most of the FreeBSD "top brass". - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message