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Re: [PATCH] add -versatile flavour to linux-kernel-di-armel-2.6



On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:31:55PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> 
> > On Friday 29 February 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:18:58PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> >> > * Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> [2008-02-25 23:44]:
> >> > > This patch adds -versatile flavour to linux-kernel-di-armel-2.6
> >> >
> >> > This patch seems to miss an update to the package-list file.  You can
> >> > use the package-list file to specify that this kernel provides ext2
> >> > and other modules (i.e. that they are built-in).
> >>
> >> Thanks.  Fixed and committed.
> >
> > Where exactly did anybody give an OK for this to be committed by you?
> >
> > I would say that the comments were at most an invitation to prepare a new 
> > patch and submit that for review again.
> >
> > Another example is the commit you did to the manual. You asked for review, 
> > but then used a minor comment from someone who's himself not actually part 
> > of the team as a justification to commit the change. It would have been 
> > much nicer if you'd left a bit more time for the actual maintainers of the 
> > manual to respond (especially when you know people are away at a 
> > conference). After you already committed I myself no longer saw any point 
> > in commenting, so I didn't. I will now probably just rewrite the text if I 
> > see a reason to do so.
> >
> > I really totally disagree with the way you appropriate things and am even at 
> > this point starting to consider whether your commit access to the D-I SVN 
> > repository should just be revoked.
> 
> While I fully agree with your complains and also think that Robert
> should really be more careful in the future I also think that we all
> do mistakes and learn from them.
> 
> He has been very active and tries to make things go fast (as I also do
> mistakenly sometimes) however this doesn't justify his commit right
> removal.
> 
> Mistakes are far from usual misbehaviour and I'm sure Robert will do
> his best to avoid this to happen again. Am I right Robert?

Hey,

Sorry, I missunderstood.  Please, would you tell me which specific rules I
should observe for each part of D-I?  I understand I can handle win32-loader/
directory freely, but for the rest I really don't know, and was just using
common sense.

Thanks

-- 
Robert Millan

<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)


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