Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:00:14 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <20030204003013.GI70413@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030203190543.M1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu> References: <20030203234013.GF70413@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030203190543.M1455@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
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On Monday, 3 February 2003 at 19:05:43 -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> What I can say is that yes, I too have experienced >> dillon the way you describe him, friendly, helpful and effective. >> Unfortunately, he's not always like that. > > So the issue is, (a) Matt's work, and his presence on mailing lists, > is very valuable (according to us users); (b) his attitude with other > developers is not helpful (according to developers). Yes, that's the sum of it. > Linux has faced far worse problems, with (apparently) much more > prickly developers, and still worked things out. See, eg, these > two related articles -- > http://lwn.net/Articles/8093/ > http://lwn.net/Articles/8123/ > > Surely some such thing can be worked out with Matt too, if he's > amenable -- have him continue to contribute, both to the code and to > the mailing lists (I assume he's not banned from there), No. He has posted a few comments on the situation. > but filter his commits through someone else who gets along with him > (surely there must be someone who does)? This was one of the options we considered. On the face of it, it looks reasonable, but it didn't work out. > It would be a pity to lose his presence totally. Agreed. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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