Hi Tom,
On 1/2/25 5:13 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
Hey all,
While I had hoped that the quiet of the last week or so had meant that
things would perhaps return to how they had been before, Simon's large
patch series and then comments on the TPM+bloblist patch have shown
otherwise.
I would appreciate some context and possibly links to the problematic
comments so people who are not in the know can provide their point of
view. A factual, as objective as possible, summary of the situation and
maybe afterwards your complaints about it could help too. Because this
is lacking, I'm not sure much more feedback will be shared?
At this point, I do not know how best to handle Simon's behavior,
without soliciting feedback in public first. At best he's created a
soft-fork of the project with his "sjg/master" branch. I've asked him
repeatedly to explain how he thinks this is all going to work out, in
public. I've had private conversations with him, but I want him to
explain in public. Or, he can post the messages if he likes.
And I am in the process of getting outside help that would in turn be
able to help the project move beyond the BDFL model we've always used.
Because at the end of the day, if most of the active developers would
prefer the direction Simon wants to take everything in, that's something
I can accept. But what's going on now is towards the worst end of
possible outcomes I think for the project itself. And by that I mean,
one prominent contributor steam-rolling over others and doing as the
please and implicitly acting as an authoritative voice for the project.
It's not clear what "Simon's behavior" means here so it's difficult for
me to say what I would prefer. It's also not clear what you're asking or
suggesting.
Is there a specific reason to keeping it vague maybe?
What I've gathered skimming through the ML the last few weeks seems to
be about the following:
- Simon saying he merged patches into his sjg/master branch but it
contains (?) rejected patches or is not sending pull request against
master or next,
- Simon sending patches based off this sjg/master branch, specifically
without notifying other reviewers/maintainers,
- Simon sending too many too big patch series too fast,
Can you please clarify what you're bothered about and on what you're
asking our opinion/feedback?
Cheers,
Quentin
