On 19 Feb 2014, at 15:19, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Bayard Bell <buffer.g.overf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> From my experiences Illumos is non-collaborative and non-trustworthy. 
>>> 
>>> This however is something that could be easily changed. Illumos would just 
>>> need to give a sign that there is a will for collaboration.
>> 
>> This is tiresome and unreasonable, Joerg.
> 
> I am not sure what you call unreasonable….

The rest of my e-mail was quite explicit on this point. If you're nevertheless 
"not sure", I take this as a sign that you will continue to complain about the 
lack of reasonable interlocutors whom you ignore when they address you and ask 
you what you'll do today to collaborate rather than what are your preferred 
conclusions and consequences of a personal dispute from four years ago.

> A promise is a promise and as Illumos broke that, this is a problem initiated 
> by Illumos. I am not unforgiving, so it would be simple to just implement the
> promise to come out of the current situation.

illumos never made any promises to you, so when this "promise" further 
implicitly exempts you from the current contribution process, it's a 
non-starter. In fact, Garrett does not have the authority to say that a 
contribution can bypass the contribution process, and such an exemption would 
violate the fundamental integrity of the process. If it's "simple", it's as 
simple as that, and this isn't the first time this has been said directly--I 
could post the mail thread we had some time ago with the advocates list that 
went precisely to these points. 

Further, I checked the archives a year ago, and I don't recall finding any 
contribution you submitted to the community under the current process, only 
complaints about not being able to have work accepted by telephone call to 
Garrett immediately after the fork, while the process was still largely 
undefined. If you don't take the option to break the circle where it's 
available, that's the definition of what can be done and entirely up to you.

The further hypothesis this suggests is that you have settled on fixating on 
this previous incident because the contradiction which has been brought to your 
attention in fact relieves you of dealing with or accepting any criticism of 
your work or forms of participation. I don't think you've attempted to address 
this fundamental contradiction when it's been brought to your attention: you 
continue to define equal treatment as preferential treatment in explicit 
violation of standards that apply to everyone else.

You use the word collaboration a great deal--in the concrete practice of it for 
the illumos community, I think you either don't know what it means or are 
yourself averse to it. I do not know whether you aware of this evasion, but 
when you cast its lack of acceptance as a character deficit of others, I feel 
compelled to raise this publicly.

Anyway, that you've replied to the first line of what I said and professed that 
you don't understand what's been said before that you very evidently don't want 
to hear, is a sign that this won't be a dialogue, which is an expected 
disappointment and already more than needs to be said. I appreciate that this 
is a difficult position for you, but as long as your basic premise for talking 
about this is that there's no problem on your end, this is going nowhere.

Cheers,
Bayard
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