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Date:      Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:46:34 -0700
From:      Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3
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On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:08 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Three people replied to Jo Rhett's initial email.  Here's what they
> said, with Jo's own text elided:

Among other things, you time-warped some of my comments into replies =20
to things people said to the comments themselves.  But the most =20
crucial is that you dropped the entire point I was trying to make and =20=

focused on someone else's desire to focus on the specific bugs, rather =20=

than the overall policy issue.  So your entire thread is misguided at =20=

best.   Specific bugs are always addressed on the PRs themselves or =20
the hardware-specific mailing list, not on the general -stable list.

Even worse is your summary:

> I won't pretend to know what Jo is thinking or what his motivation is,
> but in my experience, when people respond in this manner, it's because
> they know they have no solid data or arguments, and are trying to save
> face.

What face?  Huh?  Exactly what face do I have to save?  Why on gods =20
green earth would I put saving face over system stability?  I think =20
you are confusing me with someone who has time to spend all day =20
writing on mailing lists/forums and considers their reputation =20
important.  You're dealing with exactly the opposite -- I rarely read =20=

the mailing lists due to lack of time, and generally don't care what =20
people think of me as long as it doesn't get in the way of getting =20
work done.

> I hope this helps you to better understand who's attacking who, and
> who's being rude to who.


You should perhaps start at the beginning and look at the questions I =20=

asked, and then recreate the thread showing the responses to the =20
policy questions I have raised.

Or just look at your own responses, which have never been less than =20
rude and not once even pretended to focus on the real questions.

--=20
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source =20
and other randomness





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