Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:20:08 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Flemming Jacobsen <fj@login.dknet.dk> Cc: dburr@pobox.com (Donald Burr), freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of the bt848 driver? (FW: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail) Message-ID: <199807291520.JAA26782@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199807290915.LAA02623@login.dknet.dk> References: <XFMail.980728142732.dburr@pobox.com> <199807290915.LAA02623@login.dknet.dk>
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> > Why did it have to come down to this, anyway? (Enquiring minds want to > > know...) > > Since it's unlikely that any of the three will comment, I'll > share what I know. > > I've known PHK since highschool, and Soeren for a couple of > years, thus when I saw Amancios post on -multimedia I sent them a > mail which (in essence) said "What the fuck are you two bozos > doing ?". We exchanged a flurry of emails that day (Fri 17) - > sharing main language and timezone works wonders for communication. > > What happened seem to be: > Soeren sent Amancio a patch to get his AVer Media card working > (10 lines added to the card table). > After waiting for 1+ months, Soeren checked it in himself. > Amancio didn't like this and wanted to back it out, but was > told by PHK that this was unacceptable unless he added the same > functionality. > Amancio couldn't accept this, and walked out. Yep. The only thing I want to point out is that both PHK and S'ren both threw out the "I'm a core member and you better do what I tell you else we'll yank your commit privileges" bit, which rubs *everyone* wrong. This isn't the first time they've been heavy-handed about it, nor will it be the last. It annoys me that they can do *wrong* things in many people's minds and justify them by being a 'core' member. Being a core member doesn't make it right anymore than just because they company is named Microsoft makes everything they do wrong. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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