Quoting Jack Vogel, who wrote on Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:59:24PM -0700 .. > On 10/6/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > We used to have a principle that commit bits were granted to individuals > > > > on their individual merit, not simply because they represented a vendor > > > > and were paid to work on drivers for that vendor's hardware. > > > Are you implying that Jack has no merit? That's an unfortunate > > > assertion. What evidence do you have to support that? > > > > It is you who implied rather strongly that Jack is neither more nor less > > than an Intel representative. You spoke of "lecturing a vendor" when > > all Erik did was point out or own rules to a *committer*. > > > > > > We also used to have a principle that changes should be tested > > > > before being committed, especially to -STABLE. > > > I guess you missed that part where Jack said that the changes had > > > undergone extensive testing. > > > > I guess you missed the part where his commit broke the tinderbox, > > because he clearly did not test the DEVICE_POLLING case. > > > > No one is perfect, and YUP, we don't test POLLING, so here I am > on my weekend fixing it, I don't get paid for that, and I also don't > get paid for all the advocation I do for this community to Intel > management.
Thankless job, all this. But I hope you know that your work is well appreciated by the crowd 'out there'. cheers, Wilko -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
