Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 01:10:29 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: chris@netmonger.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wanton Atticizing is bad Message-ID: <199901030910.BAA59068@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Jan 1999 00:52:51 PST." <199901030852.AAA19134@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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> * From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> > > * What I'm getting at is that if we want to stand a chance of being able > * to increase FreeBSD's visibility, it has to be _useful_ to _more_ > * people. It seems like some of these drivers are being removed simply > * because nobody on the core team uses them. Hell, I don't use most of > > Whoa! Not so fast my friend. It was not the core consensus to remove > them, and some of them have already been ressurected, with others > pending discussion. > > We have every intent to keep drivers that people are using, please > don't jump to conclusions just because a couple of core members went > overboard with their cvs priviledges. ;) > Actually, at least one of those core members went over board in the past with their commit priviliges. This is my *second* request for a form or procedure to deal with -core members when they step over their boundaries specially when the code in question is not theirs nor is their field of expertise. The result of my little fiasco with -core caused me my cvs commit priviliges and I voluntarily ceased all multimedia work for FreeBSD because I couldn't defend the multimedia's group code in the source tree against -core. Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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