From: vehemens <veh...@ve...> - 2009-11-30 04:36:37
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On Sunday 29 November 2009 19:51:55 Robert Noland wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 15:36 -0800, vehemens wrote: > > I believe that moving away from the current model makes it more > > difficult > > to "... spread the burden ...", hence my objections. If you want to > > call > > that ranting or complaining, so be it. > > We no longer get to share the burden with the much larger group of linux > devs directly. That *was* my primary objection to > reorganizing/abandoning drm git in the first place. Yes, I'm a little > bitter about it when I have to recite how we got where we are, but it's > done, we lost, move on. > > As for the FreeBSD code, generally each subsystem has one primary > responsible individual. For drm, that person is me. Anyone is more > than welcome to submit patches for review by either sending them to the > mailing lists, sending them to me, or filing a PR. I've accepted > patches from you in the past and I will continue to do so, if you choose > to send them. > > At last check, you had not yet been granted commit privileges for drm > git, so your path was still to submit patches to the mailing list, or > directly to me. So, I don't quite get how it makes a difference to you > if you submit patches based on drm git or against the FreeBSD src tree. > For anyone to grant you commit privs, either on fd.o or FreeBSD.org (or > most any other repo for that matter) you are going to have to > demonstrate a track record of submitting reasonable patches and a > willingness to work and get along within that community of developers. > It has been more than a year since you submitted anything to me that was > coherent and usable. This tar file that you sent me is dated 09/12/09, > but despite your arguments, it isn't currently in a form that makes it > reasonable to extract the good changes from the bad. I look at diffs > pretty much every day. Robert it no longer matters. I'm going to concide defeat and switch to Linux. |