Hi!
Below letter from Lucho:
Hello from Lucho!
"Old love doesn't get rust", as our saying goes. I'm not back, but instead
asked Arkady to forward this message of mine into the kernel mailing list.
I'll try to be concise and up to the point.
First, I'm happy that our kernel reached its present state. This was
thanks to Bart, Tom, Arkady, and all the other contributors (including
myself). But now when Bart decided to quit maintainance, nobody is ready
to replace him. Or... is there anybody? Speaking formally, no. But looking
more broadly - yes. We have a programmer who tries for a couple of years
to contribute to the kernel, even not obeying the rules for that. So many
of his proposals have been rejected, albeit not all. Now he feels more
free to contribute and does that at full steam. Let's face it, nobody is
known to work on the kernel anymore except him. Of course, you know whom
I'm talking about. Ladies and gentlemen (hmm... are there really any
ladies here?), let me introduce you (drum roll please!) the new kernel
magician - Mr. Arkady Vladimirovich Belousov from Moscow! ;-)
No, I'm not joking. I'm deadly serious here. There is a person who works
hard to continue kernel development. And instead of admiring that and
helping him, we impose limits on him. We encourage him to "apply" for his
proposals. We formalise and behave like old imperial bureaucratic rats. We
don't enhance the kernel anymore but at the same time don't allow him to
do this too. Why? To keep him from taking over? But he doesn't even have
Internet access! So I decided to help him and offer him some place at my
site to host his kernel. I'm happy to offer him help. I contributed to the
kernel to be able to fairly use it in the embedded systems in whose
development I participate. But Arkady does this even without personally
benefiting from that! Why put obstacles to him then? As many of you know,
he is a very good programmer, with a deep insight. Then please let him
work and let's not waste his time with those [otherwise useful] formal
requirements anymore!
I learned that Tom starts his own kernel branch. Welcome back to kernel
development, Tom! You have a very big contribution to reach the present
kernel state, and I'm looking forward to your further improvements. What
can be better than a competition between two excellent programmers like
Arkady and Tom? Isn't it exciting to see this? Then, enjoy life and be
good to each other, calm, without rudeness, respect each other to be
respected by others, and good luck, you kernel magicians you!!!
Yours respectfully,
Lucho from Bulgaria
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