Re: Time to flush Mr. Hammano?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2008, 19:13 UTC
Message-ID: <m3odbfkn4s.fsf@roke.D-201>
In-Reply-To: <20070624192215@qkholland.gmail.com>

Quim K Holland <qkholland@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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?

First, Linus Torvalds passed maintaining git to Junio C Hamano because he wanted to concentrate on Linux kernel; distributed version control tool is just the means to do that. I don't think Linus would want to be back to maintaining git: it is a hard work.

Second, development and development speeds differ from the "creating" pre-1.0 stage (for git when it was being written and then maintained by Linus), and the mature development / improvement stage (for git being maintained by Junio).

Third, git is now in feature freeze before main release, so it is better that Junio concentrates on fixing bugs than on longish discussions or new features.

Last, you don't follow netiquette: you don't know how to cite / quote properly, you didn't word-wrap what you have wrote, you don't contribute neither to discussion nor git code.

Have a nice life... in killfile!

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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