On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > > Beside from the above, > Depends on how long it takes that some people come back to a sane way in > treating each other persons. > People just speaking about principels, > don't know why things might be good and just talk about plain not patched > vanilla stuff, without even thinking what the result would be. > I never saw someone, hey your kernel blowed my machine away, because you > added > patch xyz. > Good Hardware support seems not to be needed, because all needs to be done > upstream and/or praised by the arch overlords, that don't do anything to make > the kernel better, just ranting about why you do that etc. > I remember the discussion about adding squashfs and the other filesystems, > i rejected to add it first i was flamed for it, because you needed them to do > your holy development work. > Now im flamed for every little patch, which helps some people to get their > hardware work properly. > Luckily my hardware is supported by the normal kernel modules, you will hit > others with not supporting their hardware, which would be quite easy to > achive sometimes and doesn't hurt users that don't have the hardware. > You will lose user friendlyness, but you don't care about them anyway, and if > your system doesn't work you can fix it yourself, this is your non diplomatic > interpretation of the so called ARCH WAY. > I can spend my free time on better tasks, instead of listening to your rants > and mostly unproductive criticism all the time, do it better or let the > people that know how to handle this important part of a distro do their work. > > About your treatment with the ISOs I don't want to say much, > slapping someone in the face is nice, thanks for this. > > </rant off> > > Have fun, > (you should really link the Frustration thread from dev ml to normal general > mailinglist to keep some fun for the users ;) too ) > I hope things change to a better place, with respect to each other. > love, peace and penguins > > > greetings > tpowa > -- > Tobias Powalowski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
HI Tobias, Though I'm not actively maintaining packages, I understand that Arch is going through a difficult time now reading the ML. I have faith in this community though, and I'm sure that once all the initial finger pointing is done (everyone's human :-) , we will work together to resolve whatever issues we have with each other and the "Arch Way ™". I've always admired your skill, and hope you'll be back soon. For the record, I like the way you maintain the kernel :), and I think hardware support out of the box is awesome. And as for other issues regarding the "Arch Way ™", I think they're relatively small and will get resolved soon. I wish you the best for your marriage. I'll contact you a few years into the future when its time for me to get married to concoct a formula with your pharmaceutical skills to make the girl I marry like Linux too :) (or at least one that makes her projectile vomit if she uses Windows) Regards, Dr. Varun Acharya
