Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:11:16 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030203170940.80901R-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20030203170321.I1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
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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
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