Re: Bug#349354: why not yaird by default?
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:54:39PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
> >I am still interested in opinions from _other_ members of the kernel
> >team: Is it decided to decided to ditch yaird due to my irresponsible
> >or non-cooperative behaviour (which I claim is related to the
> >problematic ide-generic issue), or do you have different opinions on
> >how ramdisk generators should be picked for the official kernels?
>
> I don't think there is any politics here. People usually don't care until
> it does not directly interfere with what they are doing. Situation with
> Sven is a perfect example: he was one of the most enthuasiastic proponents
> for yaird, until it broke on his pet architecture :-). So don't get
Until i get to explain to loads of pegasos users how they have to work around
broken debian kernels, and explain to my hierarchy why it doesn't get fixed.
Thanks very much for the 'pet architecture'.
> discouraged, and continue doing what you're doing. If you do it well,
> definitely there will be grateful users who'll appreciate the effort.
Yeah, thanks for encouraging him. Have you looked at the history of the bug ?
It was originally filled in middle december, and i filled a secodn bug report
which was merged in late december, and contributed a fix in early january.
There was not a single reply from either erik or jonas until i personally
spoke to jonas in erkelenz, and he basically said : it doesn't break on my
powerbook, so i don't care, and am unable to understand the issue enough to
even contemplate looking at the patch without input from erik, who is MIA
since christmas or so. I proposed looking at it with him, but he didn't even
want to do that.
This is abysmal maintainer behavior, and i don't think you should be
encouraging jonas in it, he is clearly not doing a good job on it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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