From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 30 22:45: 3 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A7137B479; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:44:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA04977; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:44:59 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:44:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mike Smith Cc: Matt Jacob , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/isp MAINTAINER In-Reply-To: <200010310619.e9V6JK419662@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > mjacob 2000/10/30 21:55:55 PST > > > > Removed files: > > sys/dev/isp MAINTAINER > > Log: > > I'm dropping the MAINTAINER request and see what happens. If it becomes > > too hard for me to keep in sync with other platforms, FreeBSD will go > > it's own way. > > If FreeBSD becomes too hard for you to keep in sync, I will be among the > first that asks for this back. Let's be clear- I'm not removing the MAINTAINER out of petulance- I really don't think much of Matt Dillon as an engineer or a person and I don't much like what Peter said- but I'll try and give it a shot anyway. What the hell. > Yes, I've been down on the concept of "maintainership" off and on for a > long time, mostly when I've felt that it's been taken too far and too > excessively. That's mostly because I haven't felt that any examples > have needed any sticking up for until now. Keith should be listening to all of this. The pay for a lot folks is the ego. Shared ego possibly only exists in groups that Ayn Rand feared- but it'd be nice if she was wrong. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message