On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:32:58PM +0300, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:24, Robert Schiele wrote: > > > I think his personal problems are neither to be discussed in public on this > > mailing list > > I didn't mean that in a gossipy way, but rather in a > what-could-we-do-to-help-him way.
Well, as a general rule of thumb: If you _really_ want to help someone in such
a situation then respect his privacy and don't draw his private life into
public unless he asked you to do so. Did he?
> > nor is this a reasonable issue for a decission whether to
> > ship reiser4 or not.
>
> Oh yes it is. He's the driving force for reiserfs. Whithout him there's a
> large gap in reiserfs4's onward development.
>
> What good would it be if you'd use reiserfs4, found some bug, but there would
> be nobody to fix it?
Think again: Should a project where there is only one person able to solve
problems really be used in a critical environment?
BTW: You don't have to convince Novell not to ship reiser4 because of that
because this is already the case.
Robert
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