From: Rogan Dawes Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:18:53 GMT Subject: Re: Time to flush Mr. Hammano? Message-ID: <47949BBD.6060308@dawes.za.net> In-Reply-To: <20070624192215@qkholland.gmail.com> Quim K Holland wrote: > "Marco Costalba" wrote: > > Reading mailing list threads it is becoming common these days to hear > about contributors with patches ready to be sent as soon as 1.5.4 is > out. > > Would be a good idea to open a new branch new_stuff as a target for > this pending stuff? > > Back when Mr. Torvalds was still leading the development there was > not this stupid stability freeze and many useful patches were > accepted every day. For the past few months Mr. Hammano has not been > adding much useful code himself, did not join interesting discussions > such as Unicode normalization issues, nor gave much useful comments > on patches. He has mostly been busy rejecting useful patches and > sending not so useful comments. > > Can we vote Mr. Hammano out and ask Mr. Torvalds to come back as the > project leader? I do not mean any disrespect to Mr. Hammano, but > don't people think he outlived his usefulness as the project leader? That's Mr Hamano (one 'm'), and personally, I think that only when you have contributed to this project yourself, would you have a leg to stand on when you criticise him. As an observer, I think that Junio is doing a superb job of managing the sometimes quite torrential flow of patches contributed to git. As Linus himself has often said (Paraphrased, of course): The role of the maintainer is often more to *reject* patches than to accept them, so as to maintain the quality of the code base. Having said that, the amount of *constructive* criticism that accompanies those rejections is amazing. Often I have seen multiple pages of response to a 2 line patch, so that the contributor (and other observers) can better understand the reason for the rejection, and how to construct a better patch that would be accepted. Regards, Rogan