Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 00:12:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile Message-ID: <200103170812.f2H8CiQ02365@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:58:21 CST." <20010315175821.D362@elvis.mu.org>
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> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:55:47PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
>
> > Your mentor has does NOT give you the right to do this w/o an OK'ed by
> > the maintainer. I think Will has been around here enough he doesn't
> > need to be considered a mentee any longer? Or is this something you're
> > going to hold over his head forever.
>
> Since you're going to drag this out into the open instead of privately
> mailing me: no, I don't consider Will to be outside my mentorship in the
> src/ tree.
I get the impression that I was meant to be your mentor at some point,
Bill. So perhaps I should just ask you, politely, to consider that the
mentor role does *not* make your pupil an extension of yourself.
The mentor role is meant to be one of guidance and assistance, not
overlordship, and I think you're abusing it terribly here.
David - I don't think that seniority has anything to do with it, and I
don't think that's a valid ground for this sort of behaviour.
Will is the recognised maintainer of make(1), and ultimately this is his
call.
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to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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