Re: Time to flush Mr. Hammano?
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Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@gmail.com>
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- Jan 21, 2008, 11:47 UTC
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On Jan 21, 2008 5:36 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
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> Quim K Holland <qkholland@gmail.com> writes: > > > "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> 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.
I can personally give witness to Junio Hamano's discussion and extremely detailed discussion on patches I sent out and it is more elaborate than I would have given in reply. If he has not replied to any of your patch that is because he probably missed it, a resend or a reminder wont harm; we should all understand the workload involved with a successful project as git.
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> > > > 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? >
At least get the name right next time. I hope Linus does not read it, because I cant imagine what he would reply :).
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> As far as I count as "people", I'd say you are plain nuts. And it is > not like I remember any useful contribution of yours, anyhow. > > In my opinion, JH is doing a splendid job. You don't seem to have > watched it too closely, though. You are not even able to spell his > name, and you obviously have no clue about the state of affairs anyway. > If you think you can do a better job, feel free to do so: since git is > developed using distributed version control, everybody can make his own > forks and still continue sharing code and patches. We have this > situation with the Linux kernel (where we have Linus kernels, Morton > kernels, Molnar kernels and so on), all quite amicably.
I tend to agree with David, it is very easy and convenient to criticise someone despite his brilliant work. if one feels that a patch will be extremely helpful for one, he/she can easily take and integrate it with his/her own codebase install it and use it, in fact thats what I do as I have two installations of git.
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> > A similar branching out is not really visible for git itself (apart from > the msys-git branch which is slated for eventual reintegration), and > that's exactly because Junio's work leaves so very little to be desired. > > -- > David Kastrup > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
-- Imran M Yousuf