From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 22 11:52:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01221 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:52:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01213 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:52:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00804; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:41:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199802221941.OAA00804@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: More breakage in -current as a result of header frobbing. In-Reply-To: <27525.888172295@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 22, 98 10:31:35 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:41:45 -0500 (EST) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > As to why we voted so unanimously on this, let's just say that Terry > is a rather unique individual who can argue passionately and > convincingly on either side of an argument, whether he's right or > wrong. He's also wrong about 50% of the time, leading to an > incredibly high overhead in trying to judge which side of the coin his > current (multi-page, voluminously supported) argument falls on. This, > in turn, leads to an unwillingness to trust the other 50% and hence > resulted in the vote going the way it did. > BTW, I do *respect* Terry highly. I don't always agree with him, but he is a wonderful asset. Let's look at Terry like a researcher that we want to avoid having his experimental ideas in the tree. If his signal-to-noise ratio is slightly low, it doesn't mean that his contributions are faulty. I wish that we had a better support system for the likes of him, so that we can use his talents more effectively!!! -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message