From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 3 14:11:26 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 86A3037B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:11:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A9143F75 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:11:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id h13MBGP4089781; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:11:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:11:16 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object In-Reply-To: <20030203170321.I1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Message-ID: 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: > Robert Watson wrote: > > The short of it is that Matt was unable to treat many of his fellow > > developers with the civility and respect that they deserve. > > Presumably this was on -developers or in private mail, since I can't > find any serious examples in the other archives in the recent past, but > on the contrary, several extremely helpful discussions from him (on the > new scheduler, disk cache expiry etc). > > As you say, occasional disagreements and flames are a fact of life. > However, as a lurker and a rather rare poster on the "technical" lists, > my impression is that Matt is one of the most friendly, enthusiastic and > genuinely helpful people around (apart from his unquestioned merits as a > hacker). If rudeness is a criterion for having a commit bit removed, > surely there must have been several candidates ahead of Matt in the > queue. Or maybe it was they who eventually squashed him. While your thoughts on how to improve the project are appreciated, blind speculation isn't helpful for anyone. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message